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Letter "G" » Generations
«An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Generations,
Writers,
Writing
| Keywords:
insists
«Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.»
«A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.»
«Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.»
«Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Generations
| Keywords:
generation, imagines, intelligent, went, wiser
«Before us men have flourished just as we now flourish: others yet again shall be, whose generations we shall never see»
«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
«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
«Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Equality,
Generations,
Poverty
| Keywords:
woes
«Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Generations
| Keywords:
barbarians, invasion, The Barbarians
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