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“We don't know the spiritual advancements long-term veganism - over generations - would have for human life. It would be certainly a different civilisation, and the first one in the whole of our history that would truly deserve the title of being a civilisation.”

Knows Firsts Humans Long Different Whole Would Be Spiritual Term Generations Deserve Titles Human Life Long Term Advancement Veganism Civilisation

Author:Donald Watson

“For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.”

Firsts Ends Past Time Power Generations Mankind First Time Nuclear Weapons Disarmament

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“Just as the baby boom generation seemed to believe it was the first to discover sex, many of its members also seemed to think they were the first to discover the horrors of war.”

Thinking Firsts Believe War Sex Generations Baby Horror Members Horror Of War Baby Boom

Book:Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First

Source: Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First

“Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary to win again the intellectual argument for freedom, and that to do this we must start from first principles. He was in many ways an unlikely revolutionary. For all his towering intellect, he was deeply humble. He spoke out boldly, however hostile the audience. Yet he hated to give offence. Above all, his integrity shone out in everything he said and did. His best memorial lies in the younger generations of politicians whom he inspired. But for me he is irreplaceable.”

“Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.”

Thinking Firsts Whole Process Generations Design Alternatives Requirements Restraint Testing Involving Design Process

Author:Herbert Simon

“We are using new technologies in meaningful ways. To build our new refinery in 60 percent of the time it took to build our first, we are training 20,000 people in a new generation of welding technology in six months.”

People Way Firsts Technology Generations Months Six Training Percent Meaningful Six Months New Technology New Generation Refinery Welding

Author:Mukesh Ambani

“I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.”

Firsts Hands Eye Earth Death Three Born Numbers Generations Members My Family Fingers Males Legs Reasonable Expecting Toes Three Generations

Author:Neil Kinnock

“The first generation from the '50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks, I mean just out and out crooks. And the next generation had a little more finesse. But I mean those first wave of people, you know, definitely would take all your money, no doubt about it.”

People Knows Firsts Mean Littles Next Doubt Generations Wave No Doubt Broadway Next Generation Crooks Finesse

Author:Al Kooper

“My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that.”

Firsts Understanding Generations Heard Aids 80s Viruses Hiv My Generation Misconception

Author:Annie Lennox

“If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever, it was the first generation that existed; and if that generation did it not, no succeeding generation can show any authority for doing it, nor can set any up.”

Ifs Men World Should Firsts Shows Generations Succeed Authority Possessed Dictating

Book:The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface

Source: The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface

“Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.”

Needs Firsts Lasts Causes President Generations Determined Reform I Am Determined Health Reform

Author:Barack Obama