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“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Country Character Able Lasts Poverty Economy Progress Generations Example Grew Percent East Indian Asian 1960s Phenomenal Asian Countries

Author:Manmohan Singh

“I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.”

Country Able Lasts Generations Sitting Gains Radio Buttons Banging Osmosis

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.”

Way Writing Lasts Generations Observation

Author:Alexis Denisof

“Every generation wants to be the last.”

Want Lasts Generations Background Music

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone purchases art it is the one thing that will last for generations.”

People Way Art Facts Lasts Moving Generations One Thing

Author:Jack White

“I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem to share that interest and it shows.”

Shows Seems Today Lasts Guy Passion Games Felt Interest Generations Groups Share My Generation

Author:Tim Henman

“Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.”

Years Wells Lasts Five Generations Painting Hundred Twenties Immortality Thirty Tombstone

Author:Robert Genn

“The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last.”

Needs Lasts Understanding Generations Constitution Loyalty Renewal Allegiance

Author:Anthony Kennedy

“The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.”

Thinking Knows Want Lasts Next Generations Couple Evidence Raised Favors Not Sure Generation X

Author:Dave Sim

“A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.”

Years Lasts Generations Revolution Periods Marijuana Fifteen Effectiveness Fifteen Years

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.”

Ifs Thinking Years Firsts Lasts Stuff Generations Finals Stores Something New Last Year Gadgets

Author:William Gibson

“Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be fed by creative works after their copyright expires. That has been our tradition but that tradition has been perverted in the last generation. We're trying to use the Constitution to reestablish what has always been taken for granted--that the public domain would grow each year with new creative work.”

“I am also, I must confess, a little sceptical of the theory that we have a right, if we could, to pass on our capital burden to future generations. I remarked last year in this context that our predecessors had not passed any significant part of their burden on to us.”

Ifs Years Littles Lasts Generations Theory Burden Significant Last Year Future Generation Predecessors

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the men and women denounced and persecuted as infidels by the pious of one century are frequently claimed as saints by the pious of a later generation.”

Men Has Beens Age Lasts Generations Atheism Century He Man Men And Women Saint Positive Atheism March Pious Heretic Persecuted Infidel

Book:Theological Essays

Source: Theological Essays

“It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.”

Source: The Life of Jesus: Works of Renan

“I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.”

People Firsts Different Kids Able Lasts Names Parent Common Growing Up Growing Generations African American Nigeria

Author:Terry Gross

“I have always stressed to my girls that outer beauty fades but inner beauty lasts forever. Simple things like smiling and looking people in the eye could change someone's bad day into a good one. My mom always said that beauty is as beauty does, and I'm sure it will pass along to all the future generations of our family.”

People Doe Said Eye Lasts Girl Simple Forever Generations Mom My Mom Our Family Fades Inner Beauty Future Generation Bad Day Stressed Simple Things My Girl Beauty Fades Outer Beauty

Author:Tina Knowles

“I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.”

Believe Book Lasts I Believe Generations

Book:The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller

Source: The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller

“Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.”

Men Lasts Father Generations Tree Angry Old Man Drag Cried Orchard Groaning Angry Man

Book:A Stein Reader

Source: A Stein Reader

“bubbles of false opinion will last whole ages, and deceive whole generations, till they are broken by some powerful breath, and even then how often they reunite, and again shine in the eyes of men, who hold them solid as cannon-balls!”

Men Whole Eye Age Lasts Powerful Opinion Generations Broken Balls Breaths Shining Bubbles Deceiving Cannons

Book:Memoir and Letters

Source: Memoir and Letters

“It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you weren't getting anything that was derivative of I Love Lucy or Happy Days. You were getting real characters [like those] they read in P.G. Wodehouse or Dickens or somewhere along the line, because they had all grown up with a love of literature.”

Book Real Character Lasts Reading Literature Lines Generations Tvs Cheer Reading Books Lucy Dickens Derivatives Watching Tv Happy Day Real Character

Author:John Ratzenberger

“So why don't we make ourselves the last generation on earth? If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no sacrifices would be required - we could party our way into extinction!”

Ifs Way Would Be Earth Lasts Party Generations Sacrifice Agree Population Extinction Population Control

Book:Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

Source: Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

“The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.”

Lasts America Generations Europe Scientist Philosopher Spinoza Europe And America

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“Above all, think of life as a prototype. We can conduct experiments, make discoveries, and change our perspectives. We can look for opportunities to turn processes into projects that have tangible outcomes. We can learn how to take joy in the things we create whether they take the form of a fleeting experience or an heirloom that will last for generations.”

Thinking Looks Lasts Form Joy Turns Opportunity Process Creativity Generations Design Perspective Projects Discovery Experiments Outcomes Fleeting Tangible Prototype Heirlooms

Author:Tim Brown

“The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.”

Lasts Next Generations Worst Entertainment Grades The Next One Worst Fear

Book:Flight Behaviour

Source: Flight Behaviour

“I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.”

Lasts Generations Sweden

Book:Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

“Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy now comes true. To us much is given; more is expected. This generation will nobly save or mainly lose the last best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous just. A way, which if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.”

Ifs World Way Earth Lasts Given Loses Destiny Forever Generations Security Expected Peaceful Generous Bless Prophecy This Generation Hoping For The Best Rendezvous

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.”

Looks Lasts Faces Culture Next Difficult Impossible Generations Difficulty Aim Lays Arise Coats Jamaica Specifications African Culture

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.”

Mind Age Lasts Five Generations Understood Universal Institutions Flesh Tea Clock Phrases Glorious March Application Rude Rapids Rivals Risen Heirs Forefathers

Author:Lewis Carroll

“In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has hadless authority than the last. . . . Masculinity ceased to be defined in terms of domestic involvement, skills at fathering and husbanding, but began to be defined in terms of making money. Men had to leave home to work. They stopped doing all the things they used to do.”

Men Years Two Home Lasts America Past Used Father Parent Term Generations Skills Authority Hundred Defined Primaries Making Money Masculinity Involvement Over The Past Fathering

Author:Frank Pittman

“For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.”

Needs Years War Lasts Past Political Fantasy Path Rights Generations Baby Approach Civil Rights Righteousness Vietnam Exit Crusades Ramp Baby Boom

Author:Joe Klein

“If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it's going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don't say, "Oh, my jeans don't fit," or "Oh, I was bad." No diets. Nothing like that.”

Ifs Giving Wisdom Kids Lasts Family Generations Example Food Health Mom Fit Anxiety Ethics Lifetime Diets Jeans

Author:Bethenny Frankel

“Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better thanthe metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.”

Ifs Men Said Age Lasts Language Generations Ordinary Stones Claims Philosophical Metaphysics Last Words Something Better Stone Age Acumen

Author:J. L. Austin

“The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better than the last one. The 'American dream' also means a democratic political system in which most people feel they can affect public decisions and elect officials who will speak for them. In recent years, the dream has been fading.”

“I was sorting through my mother's things. All the letters from friends had to go. I don't know why she kept them, and now they meant nothing to anybody alive. Each generation flushes the toilet for the last.”

Knows Lasts Mother Alive Generations Letters Toilets Sorting

Author:Lucy Ellmann

“Superstring theories provide a framework in which the force of gravity may be united with the other three forces in nature: the weak, electromagnetic and strong forces. Recent progress has shown that the most promising superstring theories follow from a single theory. For the last generation, physicists have studied five string theories and one close cousin. Recently it has become clear that these five or six theories are different limiting cases of one theory which, though still scarcely understood, is the candidate for superunification of the forces of nature.”

“Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.”

Years Lasts Three Generations Stones Graves Forty Scarce Oaks

Book:The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

“Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?”

Source: The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.”

Ifs Lasts America Courses Change Class Generations Middle Middle Class Tipping Tipping Point

Author:Bernie Sanders

“F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.”

Firsts Lasts Generations Scott Fitzgerald

Author:Gertrude Stein

“We don't need to reinvent manliness. We only need to will ourselves to wake up from the bad dream of the last few generations and reclaim it, in order to extend and enrich that tradition under the formidable demands of the present.”

Men Needs Dream Lasts Order Generations Demand Tradition Wake Up Manhood Formidable Manliness Bad Dream

Author:Waller R Newell

“I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.”

Thinking Way Shows Lasts Generations Tvs Grew Grew Up Radio

Author:Bob Dylan

“I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste as much time on the internet as we do now so I had large chuncks of time which to devote to doing something.”

Years Lasts Player Generations Couple Internet Waste Computer Guitar Guitar Player

Author:John Mayer

“Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.”

People Years States Helping Home Lasts Generations Response Sorry Reports Reaching Territory Last Year Committees Stolen Fractions Programmes

Author:Malcolm Fraser

“A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead.”

Years Humans Made Self Together Lasts Lying Born Four Generations Middle Creation Billions Ties Complexity Cosmos Thread Arcs Smack Trajectory Culmination Techno Bios

Author:Kevin Kelly

“A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.”

Men Firsts Would Be Lasts Race Impossible Generations Occasions Sufficient Live By Wages Minimum Wage Workmen Living Wage Wealth Of Nations

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement.”

Feels Lasts Next Games Generations Improvement Versions Next Generation Xbox Playstation Wii Playstation 3

Author:Will Wright

“In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.”

World Firsts Christian Lasts Religious Views Christianity Generations Caught Retreat

Book:History of Christianity

Source: History of Christianity

“I'm concerned that the world is a mess. That's why when I wrote my last book, Let's Face It, I dedicated it to the younger generation because, let's face it, the world is in a mess. Right now, the young people will inherit that mess. I think we have to do everything we can.”

People Thinking World Book Lasts Faces Young Generations Right Now Concerned Mess Dedicated Younger Generation

Author:Kirk Douglas

“Crossing the Finish Line is a must-read for anyone concerned with the disturbing fact that Americans can no longer count on each generation being better educated than the last. Focusing on public institutions that educate more than three-fourths of U.S. students, Bowen, Chingos, and McPherson provide compelling arguments that institutions and policymakers must find new ways to overcome deeply entrenched patterns if our country is to regain its position as the most educated.”