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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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I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it. – Henry David Thoreau

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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. – Oscar Wilde

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. – Adlai Stevenson

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