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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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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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[A]t present my chief work is on the manuscripts of the library—a blessed lot, as nothing could be more interesting, as bringing me into close touch with the ancients, to whom I now belong. – James L. Whitney, “Reminiscences of an Old Librarian,” November 1909 #oldsoul

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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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Twenty cant be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twentys eternal love affairs. – Emily Carr

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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. – Oscar Wilde

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We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it. – Jose Serrano

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