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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? – Thomas Jefferson

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. – Thomas Jefferson

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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. – Lewis Mumford, The Brown Decades

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Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the childs rattle, and the old man does not care for the young mans whore. – Samuel Johnson

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From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. – W. Somerset Maugham

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. – Willa Cather

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Its better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one. – Harold S. Geneen

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A partner is someone who makes you more than you are, simply by being by your side. – Albert Kim

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If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you. – Muqtada al Sadr

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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. – Maureen Dowd

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