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generation
«They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.»
Author: Richard Yates
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
educated, generation, parents, school, well-educated
«The older generation are leading this country to galloping ruin!»
Author: John Lennon
(Political activist, Singer, Songwriter)
| Keywords:
gallop, galloped, galloping, gallops, generation, leading, older, old country, ruin
«The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Life,
Living
| Keywords:
alter, altering, attitude, discovery, Discovery of, generation, human being
«The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Discovery
| Keywords:
alter, altering, attitudes, discovery, Discovery of, generation, My Generation
«The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
generation, government in, one generation, Philosophy of, school, the next, The school
«The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
dishonor, dishonored, dishonoring, dishonors, fiery, generation, honor, latest, pass, Trials
«The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
assets, behaves, generation, impair, impaired, impairing, impairs, increased, natural resource, natural resources, resources, The Nation, The Natural, the next, The Next Generation, treats, turn over
«The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
classed, fable, generation, Jesus, Jupiter, Minerva, mystical, Out of the Womb, supreme, Supreme Being, The Brain, Virgin, womb
«The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can change his life by changing his attitude of mind»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Discovery
| Keywords:
changing, discovery, Discovery of, generation, My Generation
«The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
bosom, Death of, e'en, finite, generation, glass, go after, i.e., I E, mortal, realities, reflected, temporal, There exist, The Eternal, vegetable, vegetate, vegetated, vegetates, vegetating