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"Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations."
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"There are many problems which could only be solved by generations which are still to be born later. It's only one way of many how God gives answers to human problems and prayers."
"Each generation searches their memories for time lost, feels the urgent exigencies of the present, and worries about the uncertainty of the future. Akin to preceding generations, how we live, the choices we make for surviving and loving, is our story."
"The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto."
"One age misunderstands another, and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way."
"There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently."
"I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole generations come along liking that stuff and that's great."
"Now, how do the young prepare to meet the old? The same way the old prepare to meet the young: with a little condescension; with low expectation of the other's rationality; with the knowledge that the other will find what they say hard to understand, that it will go beyond them (not so much over the head as between the legs); and with the feeling that they must arrive with something the other will like, something suitable."
"Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land."
"Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures."
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"What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?"
"Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field."
"I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams."
"For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands."
"Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time."
"Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead."
"It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible."
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