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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. – Thomas Jefferson

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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it. – Thomas Jefferson

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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. – Thomas Jefferson

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A father lives after death in his son. – Sanskrit

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Generation Gap: A chasm, amorphously situated in time and space, that separates those who have grown up absurd from those who will, with luck, grow up absurd. – Bernard Rosenberg, Dictionary for the Disenchanged, 1972

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First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children. – Milton Greenblatt

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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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Money isnt important, but you have to have enough, so you dont have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag. – Jarvis Cocker

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Obviously an actor draws on his own experience. – Christopher Walken

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