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The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. -- Tom Brokaw
The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop. -- Margaret Carlson
Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties. -- Jerry Saltz
It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced. -- Tom Brokaw
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart. -- Jim Webb
I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided. -- Hugh Shelton
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I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front. -- Phil Klay
And now that the Greatest Generation is getting older, I think it is the responsibility of all Americans to make sure we do our part for America's seniors. You have earned the best of America -- and we need to make sure you get the protection and health care you deserve. -- John F. Kerry
My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation that achieved victory in World War II. This was the generation that saved the world from fascism, came home and built the great American middle class, led the way in the civil rights movement, protected our environment, and created great programs like Medicare. -- John F. Kerry
Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat. -- Hampton Sides
The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations. -- Trent Lott
If someone tries to tell you you are the greatest generation in the history of America, don't believe them. You aren't. You have the capability to be, but you aren't. -- Josh McDowell
We have the new greatest generation. We don't need as large a military due to the technology we have, the equipment we have outfitting our personnel. They really are storm troopers. -- Joe Wilson
We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve nowadays are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform. -- George W. Bush
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It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that. -- Glenn Beck
What we need now is the greatest generation of young adults in the history of the Church. We need your whole heart and soul. In other words, it's time to raise the bar not only for missionaries but also for returned missionaries and for your entire generation. -- M. Russell Ballard
There's one big difference between me and the others - I won't take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy. I'll use the bulk of the surplus to secure Social Security far into the future to keep our promise to the greatest generation. -- John McCain
I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation. -- Michael Hastings
Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice. -- Clancy Brown
Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation, -- Patrick Stewart
Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation. -- Ernie Fletcher
There's Dick Van Dyke and John Ritter, the two greatest physical comics of our generation. -- Suzanne Somers
One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom. -- Desmond Tutu
Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence? -- Henry Mintzberg
I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation. -- Alec Baldwin
To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master. -- Barack Obama
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. -- William James
One of the greatest failures of every generation is that it refuses to read the minutes of the last meeting. -- David A. Noebel
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. -- James Truslow Adams
One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate. -- Ravi Zacharias
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- Lee Iacocca
One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation. -- Fred Rogers
We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure. -- Whit Stillman
The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it. -- James St. James
William Dalrymple has superseded Mark Tully as the voice of India"¦ He may well be the greatest travel writer of his generation. -- Robert Twigger
The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one. -- Thomas Leonard
The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up. -- Jason Mraz
Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation. -- Richard P. Feynman
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -- Marilyn Ferguson
If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known. -- Leo Tolstoy
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
The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed. -- James A. Baldwin

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