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

"Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures."

"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."

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

"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."

"They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age."

"One age misunderstands another, and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way."

"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."

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

"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."
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