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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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Its all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. – George Bernard Shaw

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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever. – William Blake

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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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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. – Charles Dudley Warner

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