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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
Jackson Browne
Generation
Important
Own
Way
Rules
Most
Most Important Thing
Make
Make Up
Does
Important Thing
Doing
Lot
Up
Maybe
The Most Important
Break
Each
Each Generation
Thing
Things
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
Jimmy Carter
Happiness
Life
Spiritual
Survival
Rights
Generation
Liberty
Human Rights
This Generation
Resources
Ours
Physical
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Devoted
Human
Planet
Inhabitants
Nourishment
Whose
Nuclear
Every generation brings something new to the workplace, and millennials are no exception. As a group, they tend to be highly educated, love to learn, and grew up with the Internet and digital tools in a way that can be highly useful when leveraged properly.
Kathryn Minshew
Love
Generation
Internet
Digital
Group
Every
Tools
Way
No Exception
Something
Properly
Something New
Tend
Exception
Highly
New
Learn
Educated
Up
Grew
Useful
Workplace
Millennials
Brings
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?
Margaret Atwood
You
Generation
World
Practice
Luxuries
Our
Books
Our Generation
Paper
Libraries
Had
Schools
Venues
Without
How
West
Lack
Teachers
Many
Lucky
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.
Margaret Walker
Freedom
Peace
Generation
Courage
People
World
Sky
Earth
Born
Rise
Written
New
Come
Another
Issue
Bloody
Loving
Forth
Full
Growth
Second
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
Martin Luther
God
Great
Me
Generation
Matter
Out
Marvel
Clay
Mystery
Had
Him
Advised
Continue
Reproduction
Them
Mankind
Should
Species
Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
Nas
Generation
People
Try
Power
Every
Atrocities
Prophecy
Witnesses
Fulfill
Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere.
Robert Smith
Animal
Generation
Lose
Every
Our
Worrying
Spent
Would
About
Seem
Rather
Genes
Existence
Than
Get
Die
Offspring
Just
Anywhere
Themselves
Next
Next Generation
Actually
When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'
Robert Smith
Music
Beatles
Generation
Cause
Listening
Thought
Punk
First
Saw
Along
House
Got
Came
Pink
Pink Floyd
Up
Rolling
Stones
Rolling Stones
Grew
Found
Played
Floyd
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Soren Kierkegaard
Faith
Generation
Human Being
Passion
Every
Further
Highest
Come
None
May
Human
Being
Far
Many
There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
T. D. Jakes
Generation
Nothing
More
Empowering
Passionate
Than
Any
Next
Next Generation
This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.
Tom T. Hall
Generation
Somebody
This Generation
Else
Kid
Entertain
Lawn
Only
Fair
Mow
Should
Now
The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.
Vivienne Westwood
Alone
You
Age
Generation
Discipline
Impossible
Young
Live
Out
Distraction
Find
More
Because
Non-Stop
Making
Curiosity
Anything
Which
Ever
Need
Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
Alan Autry
Leadership
Generation
Courage
Will
Benefit
Make
Decisions
Next
Next Generation
Requires
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
Alberto Moravia
Future
Generation
Obligation
Our
Resources
Laws
Rather
Absolute
Proposition
Ideals
Becomes
Pass
Than
Owner
Custodian
Turn
Customs
Should
Inheritance
Each
Each Generation
Based
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Memory
Generation
Experience
Nation
Living
Way
Becomes
Condensed
Literature
Incontrovertible
If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that's death. That's instant death.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Death
You
Generation
Yourself
Closed
Allow
Instant
Younger
Younger Generation
Then
Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.
Alison Gopnik
Change
Generation
Mind
Parents
Few
Way
Wired
Environment
Generations
New
New Generation
Becomes
Brains
Up
Human
Just
Children
Different
Created
Human Mind
Radically
Each
Each Generation
Different Way
Grows
We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.
Anne Lamott
Time
History
Generation
Humor
Our
Earth
Only
Shared
Genes
Pyramids
Like
Understand
How
Were
Blood
Expecting
Egyptians
Children
Younger
Pregnant
Younger Generation
Means
Actually
Profound
Here
Sibling
At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.
Arlo Guthrie
Environmental
Time
History
Change
Rights
Generation
Boom
Rights Movement
Folk
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Environmental Movement
Course
Ready
Anti-War
Ban
Same
Same Time
Movement
Happening
Suddenly
Bomb
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Time
Generation
Negative
Waste Time
This Generation
Immense
Obscure
Supposed
Concentrating
Obvious
Capacity
Speakers
Ignoring
Platitudes
Waste
I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.
Avril Lavigne
Day
You
Age
Generation
Punk
Singing
Hell
Britney
See
Wearing
Day And Age
New
Like
Ties
Around
New Generation
Walking
Vicious
Created
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
Ben Lindsey
Generation
Trouble
Teen
Kids
Something
Feel
Up
Shock
Elders
Each
Each Generation
Harder
Grows
Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.
Bill Bryson
Beautiful
Generation
Hate
World
Lost
Reliably
Would
Allowed
Part
Countryside
Most
Still
Anywhere
Britain
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
Camille Paglia
Generation
People
Thanks
Young
Older
Those
Enter
Has-Been
Rupture
Writers
Since
Major
Most
Were
Been
Continuity
Intellectual
North
North American
American
Did
Forgotten
Influenced
Young People
Breakthroughs
American Writers
Older Generation
Professions
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
Carlos Ghosn
Respect
Generation
Demanding
Think
About
More
Environment
New
New Generation
Than
Much
Ever
Imagined
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