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Letter "M" » My Generation
«I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dyn»
Author: Allen Ginsberg
| Keywords:
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«Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.»
«My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
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Choice,
Generations
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Cabernet, chose, existential, faced, grew, marijuana, My Generation, religious belief, religious beliefs
«What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?»
Author: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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families, My Generation, pane, panes, raindrop, raindrops, The Children
«My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whinning about for years.»
Author: Kurt Cobain
(Musician, Singer)
| About:
Apathy
| Keywords:
apathy, counterculture, disgusted, My Generation, racism, sexism, spineless
«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
«I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.»
Author: Bette Davis
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My Generation
«I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Future, and some day, when my generation retires, they will have to pay us trillions of dollars in social security»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Generations,
Hope,
Youth
| Keywords:
a trillion, dollars, My Generation, retires, Social Security, trillion, trillions
«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
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