Barack Obama Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Generations Quotes

I think I did in the sense that there's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible. And that generation, it's coming.

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Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

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A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

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O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

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We can still maintain our coasts and oceans for the generations to come, who deserve what we have.

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Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.

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Every generation tailors history to its taste.

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I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

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I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

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In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

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The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

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Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.

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Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.

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You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

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The trouble with the younger generation is that they don't stay young for very long.

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We can still maintain our coasts and oceans for the generations to come, who deserve what we have.

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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.

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A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

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