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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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"Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations."

"Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations."

"I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning."

"I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one."

"It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations."

"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."

"Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land."

"There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently."

"The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto."

"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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"They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery."

"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."

"Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?"

"The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now."

"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."

"I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living."

"Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem."

"The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place."

"I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present."
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