#genera

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers. ↗

— Billy Corgan

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Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. ↗

— Bill Cosby

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Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words. ↗

— Xun Zi

#breadth #danger #earth #every #every step

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly. ↗

— Richard Whately

#blessing #generally #god #make #men

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. ↗

— Charles Eastman

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Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past. ↗

— James G. Frazer

#appearances #day #even #every #every day

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison. ↗

— Paul Goodman

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War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#desks #emergency #generation #himself #learned

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#disposition #esteem #general #glory #happy

You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better. ↗

— Cobi Jones

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