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Letter "G" » generations
«Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.»
Author: E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
| Keywords:
cafeteria, cafeterias, combined, combines, commonly, demands, generations, information, resulted, schools, shared, steadies, steady, students, style, unwillingness
«Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be ''uneconomic'' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.»
Author: E. F. Schumacher
(Economist, Founder)
| Keywords:
call into question, degradation, destroying, generations, immoral, Peace of, peril, prosper, questioned, shown, soul-destroying, The WELL, uneconomic, well-being
«Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.»
«From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.»
Author: Leon Jaworski
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Constitution
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Above the Law, generations, interpreted, reaffirm, reaffirmed, reaffirming, reaffirms, so as to, The Watergate, Watergate
«Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
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«Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Writers
| Keywords:
author, bored, generations, insists, tormenting
«Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Generations
| Keywords:
burden, carrying, expense, generations
«And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.»
«Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
ADD, add on, add to, add up, And One, bear, bear in mind, children, faithfully, generations, hand, hands, honor, honoring, inheritance, inheritances, in order, in working order, In Your Hands, My school, one day, order, order of the day, put, put in, put to work, receive, schooled, schooling, schools, This Is, to it, wonderful, working day, work day
«Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Books,
Generations
| Keywords:
generations, inheritance, inheritances, treasured
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