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“Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.”

Language Written Generations Civilization Succeed Findings Written Language

Author:Charlton Laird

“If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.”

Ifs Individual Justice Rights Generations Security Succeed Concepts Capitalism Guarantees Enterprise National Security Sovereignty Guarantees That Free Enterprise Individual Rights

Author:George Nethercutt

“The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.”

World Games Generations Youth Succeed Ordinary Universal Adulthood Championship Festivals Threshold Olympic Games Ordinary World

Author:Pierre de Coubertin

“The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.”

Christian Religion Father Sin Virtue Generations Succeed

Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the world many generations of our forefathers, or where should we be now? —”

World Way Should Country Generations Succeed Forefathers Midwife

Book:Lark Rise to Candleford

Source: Lark Rise to Candleford

“Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be 'soonmoved withtheslightesttouch of blame'; very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them all the maxims, of self-justification.”

Littles Self Practice Generations Habit Succeed Daughter Fairs Blame Possessed Justification Maxims Propensity Hereditary Self Justification

Author:Maria Edgeworth

“For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn't done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks. Why was I succeeding? Why was I living my dreams? I wasn't more deserving than they were. I wasn't smarter or a better person. What was the difference between us that allowed me to attain so much in a short time? America. America was the difference. I had been born a citizen of the greatest nation in all of human history.”

Source: An American Son: A Memoir

“In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes.”

Source: Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of His Shorter Writings

“These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.”

“a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide very little clue. On the contrary, words are notoriously imprecise and open to every kind of interpretation, so you must search.”

Kind Littles Play Generations Theory Succeed Theater Endure Contrary Interpretation Clue Ambiguous

Author:Glenda Jackson

“Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.”

Firsts Reason Hands Father Given Justice Forget Generations New York Lessons Succeed Amendments Freedom Of Speech Founding First Amendment New York Times Our Founding Fathers

Author:Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.

“When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it beforewhy do we think we can succeed now?”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Believe Memories History Generations Succeed First Time Burden Assumption Buried Persist Predecessors

Author:Joanna Russ

“It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they should not be lost, but, being developed in succeeding generations through publications in books, should gradually attain in later times, to the highest refinement of learning.”

Should Book Lost Wise Generations Succeed Highest Posterity Provision Publication Refinement Transmit

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of their hats and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under their patronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors.”

Kind Persons Age Certain Nations Wonder Moral Generations Fashion Morality Succeed Vices Coaches Characteristics Hats Ancestor Wickedness Depravity Censure Moralist Scruples Patronage

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.”

“I felt the calling to serve my country. My parents came to the United States from Mexico and Colombia, and this country treated them well. It gave my sisters and me the opportunity to get an education and succeed. I wanted to repay my country for how they treated my family and ensure that our values and freedom are intact for future generations.”

Wells Country States Wanted Values Opportunity Felt Parent United United States Generations Calling Succeed My Family Treated My Sister Mexico Future Generation Colombia

Author:Ruben Gallego

“If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.”

Ifs World Culture Opportunity Generations Information This World Comfort Succeed Standards Resources Focused Endless Privacy Longevity Inheritance Navigate

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“The next step is for the great teachers to arise, and for them to clearly understand the challenges ahead and mentor accordingly. Where most generations focus the education of their children on preparing to make a living or succeed financially, leadership generations are taught by parents who see a higher role for their children.”

Children Next Parent Challenges Steps Roles Focus Teacher Generations Taught Higher Succeed Arise Mentor Preparing Great Teacher Next Steps

Author:Oliver DeMille

“There is a clear connection between developing the skills and talents of young people, and our economic success as a province. Initiatives like the Make Your Pitch competition and the Ontario Social Impact Voucher help us nurture the next generation of business leaders. We will continue creating an inviting environment for our next generation of entrepreneurs, ensuring they develop the right skills needed to succeed in a globally competitive economy and build the future of Ontario.”

“If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.”

Ifs Doe Generations Succeed Slave Descent Be A Slave

Book:Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened and some weakened; nor is it by any means always, alas! that the tendencies for evil are weakened and those for good strengthened. But during the last few decades there certainly have been some notable changes for good in boy life. The great growth in the love of athletic sports, for instance, while fraught with danger if it becomes one-sided and unhealthy, has beyond all question had an excellent effect in increased manliness.”

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“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

“We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.”

May Country Nations Generations Succeed Majority

Book:Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

“For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.”

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.”

Earth Generations Fool Walking Succeed Delusion

Book:The Solitaire Mystery

Source: The Solitaire Mystery

“We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.”

Source: Christianity and Culture

“China has really succeeded because of its stability. So my feeling is, how they are going to maintain this fantastic stability in a very fast changing economic situation. I think this is a challenge we face, how the global region will evolve in stability with such a fast growth. If they succeed to do that, no doubt, in the next generation it will be the major area of the world, economically.”

“If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors. We transmit to you, the next generation, the total sum of our knowledge. Yours is the responsibility to use it, add to it, and transmit it to your children.”

Ifs Believe Children Use Earth Faces Next Responsibility Knowledge Generations Mankind Succeed Our Children Add Your Children Thrive Have Faith Wiser Next Generation Transmit

Author:Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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