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“Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists.”

Art Light Artist Water Generations Dog Objects Materials Thousand Paint Smoke Chairs Electric Sock Neon Neon Lights

Author:Allan Kaprow

“And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.”

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

“[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.”

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Book:The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.”

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Book:The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor: Dialogues in verse : Gebir. Acts and scenes. Hellenics

Source: The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor: Dialogues in verse : Gebir. Acts and scenes. Hellenics

“If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, were to withdraw their contributions to these objects, and give them where they are more needed, to their advancement of their own sex in useful learning, the next generation might furnish sufficient proof, that in intelligence and ability to master the whole circle of sciences, woman is not inferior to man.”

Source: Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker

“The object is not so much to get you to keep a journal while you are young, as it is to get you to continue it after you become men and women, even through your whole lives. This is especially needed in the generation in which you live, for you live in as important a generation as the children of men ever saw, and it is far more important that you should begin early to keep a journal and follow the practice while you live, than that other generations should do so.”

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Author:Wilford Woodruff

“Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. We have to eat, drink, consume, but if we do it unmindfully, we may destroy our bodies and our consciousness, showing ingratitude toward our ancestors, our parents, and future generations.”

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Author:Nhat Hanh

“Sometime over the past generation we became less likely to object to something because it is immoral and more likely to object to something because it is unhealthy or unsafe. So smoking is now a worse evil than six of the Ten Commandments, and the word sinful is most commonly associated with chocolate.”

Past Evil Generations Objects Ten Six Smoking Chocolate Commandments Immoral Unhealthy Over The Past Ten Commandments Unsafe Past Generations

Author:David Brooks

“Now what? All the battles feminists won about not being a sex object, not being evaluated based on these things, that now other generations are wallowing in, the extremes they go to, to look sexually attractive? It's stunning how things that one fought desperately for are just being tossed aside with aplomb.”

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Author:Toni Morrison