Generations Quotes - Page 24

• Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation.

  Mark Latham

  President, Dangerous, Incompetent

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• Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

  Donald Hall

  Summer, Baseball, Father

  Donald Hall (2017). “Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)”, p.53, North Point Press

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• Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films. I am a very imaginative man, and for me, it's easy to speak with my dark side. I have very beautiful, interesting nightmares.

  Dario Argento

  Beautiful, Dark, Men

  "Dario Argento, Master of Horror, Unleashes Dracula 3-D Trailer" by Xaque Gruber, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2012.

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• You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how much my work has meant to them--well, I can't tell you how happy that makes me. That means that this great stuff of myth, which I have been so privileged to work with, will be kept alive for a whole new generation. That's the function of the artists, you know, to reinterpret the old stories and make them come alive again, in poetry, painting, and now in movies.

  Joseph Campbell

  Book, Mean, Writing

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• Ethically, what one generation tolerates the next may treat as normal.

  Mal Fletcher

  May, Next, Normal

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• Ensuring a healthy future means investing in the generation who will carry that future.

  Mal Fletcher

  Mean, Healthy, Investing

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• People of Baghdad, remember for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set one Arab house against another in order that they might profit by your dissensions. This policy is abhorrent to Great Britain and her Allies for there can be neither peace nor prosperity where there is enmity or misgovernment. Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.

  Frederick Stanley Maude

  Army, Land, Cities

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• I can't think of any more important value to instill in our children than the desire to help others. I feel strongly about setting an example for them. Real problems can be solved by the next generation if we instill in them the right values.

  Matt Damon

  Children, Real, Thinking

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• Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.

  Michel Patini

  Player, Messi, This Generation

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• Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using resources now so that future generations can have them later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich.

  Julian Simon

  Using Resources, Asking, Matter

  Julian Lincoln Simon (1998). “The Ultimate Resource 2”, p.295, Princeton University Press

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• I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.

  William Graham Sumner

  Country, War, Years

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• Don't resent, fear, or judge the next generation, believe in them.

  Craig Groeschel

  Believe, Judging, Next

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• We are going to be raising a generation of mentally impaired people.

  Jon Stewart

  People

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• When the people of a nation stop communicating, they lose the common purpose that made them great. Their cities become ghost towns. People live aimlessly because they have no cause for which they are willing to die. The cry of the populace is 'Just leave me alone'. Perhaps the ultimate hell is that the wish will be granted. It is not unlikely that our own nation will collapse not through an explosive roar, but through a deafening silence. This silence must be broken in our generation. We may never get another chance.

  Jeff Myers

  Cities, Common Purpose, Our Generation

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• 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.

  Thomas Paine

  Doe, Succeed, Slave

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.136

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• Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.

  Herbert Simon

  Thinking, Design Process, Alternatives

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• The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

  George Will

  Important, Next, Satisfying

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• The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest, most dynamic economy with the dead weight of an obstructive and vastly expensive state machine.

  Martin Durkin

  Drug, Criminals, Machines

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• We're looking at a huge gap between what an entire generation thinks is going to happen during its retirement years and the funds that are there - or, more accurately, are not there - to make good on all those promises.

  John C. Goodman

  Retirement, Thinking, Years

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• The hastily crafted [stimulus] bill, with its corrupt funding of ACORN and other favors, is a disgracefully irresponsible effort to expand the public sector, diminish the private sector, empower the autocrats, and further divest us of our individual liberties - all at the expense of present and future generations.

  David Limbaugh

  Empowering, Effort, Liberty

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• The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s - use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations. To this day, we are still subsidizing millionaires in agriculture because farmers were having a tough time in the 1930s.

  Thomas Sowell

  Agriculture, Government, Tough Times

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• [Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.

  Edward Gibbon

  Kings, Space, May

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1860). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.440

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• The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Ideas, Financial, Happens

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2013

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• The unprecedented success of Keynesianism is due to the fact that it provides an apparent justification for the 'deficit spending' policies of contemporary governments. It is the pseudo-philosophy of those who can think of nothing else than to dissipate the capital accumulated by previous generations.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Thinking, Government

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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• The only source of the generation of additional capital goods is saving. If all the goods produced are consumed, no new capital comes into being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Saving, Source, Goods

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.84, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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