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“In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.”

Roles Generations Personality Speech Models Role Models Our Generation Nehru

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)

“Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.”

Order Sex Differences Generations Creation Personality Female Males Conform

Author:Margaret Mead

“The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.”

People Has Beens Jesus Left Christ Justice Generations Personality Safe Jesus Christ Contrary Atmosphere Surround Bores Accused Shattering Tedium Dynamic Personality

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It's useful to have some distance. Sources become available. Passions cool. It allows an opportunity to make some real assessments and judgments about personalities and characters.”

People Needs Writing Believe Real Character Passion Opportunity Generations Source Personality Judgment Army Distance Available Officials Assessment Personality And Character

Author:Rick Atkinson

“It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.”

Needs I Can Seems Generations Personality Proud Degrees Sells Humble Consumers Legacy Electronics

Author:John Hodgman

“I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.”

Generations Influence Personality Descendants

Book:Beatrix Potter's Americans: selected letters

Source: Beatrix Potter's Americans: selected letters

“We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.”