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“It would be hard to imagine Heaven without children. It wouldn't be Heaven! It would be a pretty boring place without children. What are we going to do, all get to be old people and then stagnate and that's the end of it? Once all those that are already born grow up, the place would really lack life without new generations of children! If there were no children, it would be a dead society.”

People Ifs Children Ends Hard Would Be Heaven Grows Born Growing Up Imagine Generations Boring Heavenly Old People New Generation

Author:David Berg

“I grew up believing my generation would be better. We would be kinder, we would be more level-headed. We would be more loving. And so many people are missing.”

People Believe Would Be Levels Generations Missing Grew Grew Up My Generation Kinder Level Headed

Author:Jorja Fox

“Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And it's people of my generation. It's their fault in a lot of ways, people over 40. It's their fault that the only movies are about robots and beautiful vampires. It's wild, all vampires are beautiful.”

People Ifs Way Real Would Be Beautiful Nice Generations Theater Faults Vampire Being Real Robots Convenient My Generation Movie Theater

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.”

“Especially in entertainment geared toward young people, the women are much stronger than they used to be. There's not really the damsel in distress anymore. I think the stereotype still possibly lives in different genre pictures but, in entertainment for the younger generation, they're used to women being equal and being strong. I think if you don't portray that, it would be kind of weird.”

“He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation; there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species.”

Ifs Thinking Men Two Matter Would Be Individual Wish Generations Influence Subjects Opposites Species Bones Accidents Flesh Reconcile Two Opposites External Influences

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.”

Ifs Men May Has Beens Hands Would Be Lost Loses Perfect Behinds Gone Generations Century Limits Gains Perfection Improvement Invention Great Men Reaching Receiving Lag

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“I never thought that I would be labeled something like Generation X because of that movie ( Reality Bites ). I had no idea going into it, and it wasn't a label I could relate to.”

Ideas Reality Would Be Generations Labels Relate No Idea Bites Generation X Reality Bites

Author:Ethan Hawke

“I think that women as a group are so powerful. I still don't think we are able to embrace our power well enough yet. We think we live in a man's world and we have to follow their rules, and yet, we're so different, and our rules are so different. I wish that we could come together more as a political force. If women ran the world, I don't believe that there would be war. I really don't.... We understand the bigger picture. We understand our impact on the environment, on the world. We understand the generations that will go after us because we gave birth to them.”

“There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history, and ends by being sure the generation younger than themselves have too much of it. It can't really always have been increasing at the rate people suppose, or there would be more of it by now.”

People Thinking Firsts Has Beens Ends Would Be Freedom Too Much Generations One Thing First Time Rate

Author:Rose Macaulay

“If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.”

Ifs Men Would Be Next Leader Generations

Book:Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings

Source: Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings

“If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.”

Ifs Humans Long Has Beens Enough Would Be Left Generations Theory Ultimate Human Life Previous Generations

Author:Stephen Hawking

“If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.”

Ifs World Way Believe Use Would Be Three Heaven Fire Generations Advice Experience Fingers Folks Scar Poke Three Generations

Author:Myrtle Reed

“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

“These missiles [Cruise and Pershing II] represent a new generation of missiles whose deployment will help give NATO first-strike capability. With this first-strike strategy, the West believes it could attack Russian military installations with such effectiveness that serious retaliation would be impossible.”

“If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.”

Ifs Men Play Would Be Next Actors Leadership Leader Audience Generations Be Good Boards Seats Good Actors

Book:Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings

Source: Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings

“The presence of the blacks is the greatest evil that threatens the United States. They increase, in the Gulf States, faster than do the whites. They cannot be kept for ever in slavery, since the tendencies of the modern world run strongly the other way. They cannot be absorbed into the white population, for the whites will not intermarry with them, not even in the North where they have been free for two generations. Once freed, they would be more dangerous than now, because they would not long submit to be debarred from political rights. A terrible struggle would ensue.”

“By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.”

Men Way Littles States Whole Would Be Change Generations Fashion Broken Revolution Summer Chains Fancy Links Floating Facility Continuity Commonwealth

Book:Burke, Select Works

Source: Burke, Select Works

“The women of my mother's generation had, in the main, only one decision to make about their lives: who they would marry. From that, so much else followed: where they would live, in what sort of conditions, whether they would be happy or sad or, so often, a bit of both. There were roles and there were rules.”

Would Be Mother Bits Women Decision Roles Generations Conditions

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.”

“...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.”

“If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details is critical.The hostilities that arise over housework...are crushing the daughters of my generation....Change takes time, but men's continued obliviousness to home responsibilities is causing women everywhere to expire of trivialities.”

Ifs Men Kind Home Would Be Attention Responsibility Generations Son Daughter Details Critical Arise Crush My Son Take Time Hostility My Generation Housework Our Daughter Triviality

Author:Mary Blakely

“Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.”

“Upon the publication of Goethe's epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or indeed, to understand this magnum opus in its entirety, from this point onward his drama was the rule by which all other Faust adaptations were measured. Goethe had eclipsed the earlier legends and became the undisputed authority on the subject of Faust in the eyes of the new Romantic generation. To deviate from his path would be nothing short of blasphemy.”

Would Be Eye Path Generations Subjects Drama Authority Appreciate Legends Epic Adaptation Publication Blasphemy Entirety Deviate Faust Zenith Undisputed

Author:E. A. Bucchianeri

“Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.”

World Want Years Real Would Be Next Asks Generations Asking Environmental Resolution Sustainability New Year Vivid Next Generation

Author:Rowan Williams

“My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.”

States Would Be Opinion Impossible Generations Prove Conviction Experiments Spontaneous Chimera

Author:Louis Pasteur

“Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.”

“If I were born in other generation, I would be a singer rapper, dancing is also...I was famous as a good dancer. My dancing skill was just hided by other members better skill.”

Ifs Would Be Born Generations Skills Members Dancing Singers Dancer Rapper

Author:Yesung

“Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality ?”

Firsts Humans Moments Reality Would Be Science Answers Generations Mystery Needed Ancestor Odds Deluded

Book:God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

Source: God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

“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

“We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would be very different. If you internalize the cost of oil, look at the cost of the war in the Middle East or the cost of global warming for future generations, if you internalize those external costs and what you pay, that bottom line would look very different, what ever business you are in.”

Ifs Needs Looks Different War Would Be Today Lines Business Pay Generations Middle Honest Cost Bottom Oil East Global Warming Middle East Bottom Line Future Generation

Author:Ray Anderson

“That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.”

Would Be Sex Mistake Generations Intimate My Generation Having Sex

Author:Erica Jong

“Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.”

Ifs States Would Be Individual Grows Interest Half Generations Integrity Authority Slave Population Contact Preserves Other Half Vested Interests Usury

Book:The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

“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

“Albert [Brooks] was rare in that he could make adults laugh. He was a prodigy. At age 15 and 16, he could make my dad laugh uncontrollably. And whenever we had parties, some of the funniest people of my generation - whether it was Billy Crystal or Robin Williams or John Belushi - would be doing shtick.”

People Would Be Age Party Laughing Generations Dad Adults My Dad Crystals My Generation Brooks Robins Prodigies

Author:Rob Reiner

“I was thinking about Afghanistan's future, Afghanistan's next generation, what we have next. These children who learn how to kill people, how to do jihad, how to behead, how to fire, this would be Afghanistan.”

People Thinking Children Would Be Next Fire Generations Afghanistan Next Generation Jihad

Author:Najibullah Quraishi

“You aren't going to save the world on your own. But you might inspire a generation of kids to save it for all of us. You would be amazed at what inspired children can do.”

World Children Might Would Be Kids Can Do Generations Inspire Inspired Amazed Save The World

Author:Jane Goodall

“Considering that future generations will be far better off than current generations even after accounting for climate change, it would be more equitable for today's industrialized world to help solve the real problems facing today's poorer developing world than to mitigate climate change now to help reduce the burden on future populations that would not only be wealthier but also technologically superior.”

“I'm sure that a previous generation of Jews who published radical newspapers and journals would be critical of [David] Simon's projects. These were left wingers who suffered casualties in some of bloodiest strikes in American history.”

Would Be Left Generations Projects Jew Critical Strikes Newspapers Radical American History Journal Casualties Left Wing Previous Generations

Author:Ishmael Reed

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