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The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. -- Jean Piaget
I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become One Circle again. -- Crazy Horse
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity. -- James Buchan
Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks. -- Robert Browning
Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks. -- Thomas Browne
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. -- Cesare Pavese
Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Generations of readers, bored with their own alienating, repetitious jobs, have been mesmerized by Crusoe's essential, civilization-building chores. -- Maureen Corrigan
Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work. -- Jeremy Rifkin
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein
When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad. -- William Shatner
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi) -- Albert Einstein
Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its report, 'Now for the Long Term.' -- Mo Ibrahim
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations. -- Richard Dawkins
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. -- Khalil Gibran
Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change. -- Shannon Elizabeth
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. -- Lewis Mumford
What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. -- Anthony Crosland
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. -- James Freeman Clarke
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. -- Haim Ginott
Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations. -- Ron Lewis
We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. -- Gloria Steinem
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. -- William James
The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results. -- Henri Nouwen
The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations. -- Joseph Pulitzer
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation. -- Coretta Scott King
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. -- Charles de Montesquieu
All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form. -- Estelle Parsons
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations. -- Yasser Arafat
We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations. -- Loretta Lynch
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. -- James Madison
I think with vampires, you can't really go wrong. For generations, vampires have been a hit because they're unobtainable, mysterious, sensual, dangerous, kind of sexy. -- Ashley Greene
My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago. -- Ziggy Marley
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations -- Robert Caro
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. -- Theodore Roosevelt
One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live. -- Nik Wallenda
If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future. -- Helen Thomas
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today. -- Penelope Keith
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -- William James
All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up. -- David Eddings
A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated. -- Junot Diaz
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes. -- Virginia Foxx
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days. -- Gloria Steinem
It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations. -- Christine Gregoire
We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years. -- Lois Capps
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it. -- Frank Gehry
Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting. -- Martin Sheen
In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties. -- Doc Hastings
Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations. -- Anna Garlin Spencer
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. -- Nhat Hanh
Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration. -- Daniel H. Wilson
The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it. -- Mike Huckabee
My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family, and a future for their family. They didn't have any of the resources of people who have lived here for two or three generations. -- Stana Katic
We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word. -- Charles Spurgeon
If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it. -- Clyde Edgerton
On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so. -- Geoff Mulgan
During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come. -- Michael Franti
For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. -- Cory Booker
Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old -- William Gibson
We're going to raise a lost generation of children unless they are properly disciplined and properly spanked -- Charles Eddie Wiseman
The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners hand on the torch of life -- Lucretius
The people who join the mob now are second- and third-generation and don't have the values their predecessors had -- Ronald Goldstock
The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation -- Roger Allen
Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in -- Bible
Our strife pertains to ourselves - to the passing generations of men; and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation -- Abraham Lincoln
(following 9/11) 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 -- Jorja Fox
Believe it, future generations. -- Horace
Whole generations have forgotten history. -- Pierre Salinger
Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves. -- Andrew Carnegie
Three generations of imbeciles are enough. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We have multi-generations coming to our show. -- Ed Robertson
When you save a girl, you save generations -- Mary N. Cook
There are generations who watch Doctor Who together. -- Sarah Sutton
Passion has been in my DNA for generations. -- Julio Iglesias
Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations. -- Marianne Williamson
It's hard to compare actors from different generations. -- Kim Hunter
Everyone, archetypally, is a parent to future generations. -- Marianne Williamson
I come from a long line of generations! -- Charles M. Schulz
Music has been in our family for generations. -- Henry Garza
To save a girl is to save generations! -- Gordon B. Hinckley
What have future generations ever done for us? -- Groucho Marx
Education : a debt due from present to future generations. -- George Peabody
One act of violence takes four generations to heal. -- Gloria Steinem
My family have been around Northumberland for five generations. -- Kevin Whately
[Invading Iraq] would create generations that hated the USA. -- Jerry Springer
Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations. -- Michael Beschloss
... several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity ... -- Albion Fellows Bacon
Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter. -- Jewell Parker Rhodes
Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. -- Daniel Melgaço
I like to see what future generations are thinking about. -- Billie Jean King
Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom. -- Robert Ringer
O Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations. -- Saint Boniface
War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations. -- James Blunt
You know, I come from six generations of college graduates. -- Julian Bond
The last generations's worst fears become the next one's B-grade entertainment. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures. -- Alice McDermott
The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations. -- Mervyn Peake
A tiny apartment might hold three generations of an immigrant family. -- Rick Smolan
Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations. -- John Maynard Smith
There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands. -- John Mellencamp
He that planteth a tree ...provideth a kindness for many generations. -- Henry Van Dyke
The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations. -- Aleksander Kwasniewski
Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think. -- Wanda Jackson
It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics. -- Geraldo Rivera
The training of younger generations is very close to my heart. -- Fabiola Gianotti
I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations. -- Georgia May Jagger
The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones. -- Giuliano Amato
It takes four generations to recover from every act of violence. -- Rebecca Adamson
The family I grew up in had three generations of widows. -- Chath Piersath
Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations. -- Toba Beta
It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics -- Geraldo Rivera
We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations. -- Alma Adams
Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations. -- Achille Maramotti
Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations -- Gayle Forman
An investment in education pays the best dividends that last for generations. -- Debasish Mridha
Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations. -- Joe Bageant
No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change. -- Barack Obama
Thriving leaders are the ones surrounded by diverse people from different generations. -- Jon Mertz

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