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Quote by William Blake
The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their

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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Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge. – William Blake

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Humanity
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William Blake
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If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro narrow chinks of his cavern. – William Blake

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Perception
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William Blake
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My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud. – William Blake

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Birth
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. – D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922

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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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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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The basis of optimism is sheer terror. – Oscar Wilde

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Haters never win. I just think thats true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end. – Tom Hiddleston

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They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. – Sitting Bull

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Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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