Quote by Adlai Stevenson
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. - Adlai

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. – Adlai Stevenson

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Do not… regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo? – Adlai Stevenson

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Patriotism
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. – Adlai Stevenson

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Earth
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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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Generations

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

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Generations

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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Generations

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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Generations

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If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. – Swami Vivekananda

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Faith

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you. – Rupert Everett

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Age

I dont enjoy good food. I dont enjoy flashy cars. I dont care if I live in a dump. I dont enjoy good clothes. This is the best Ive dressed in months. – Jack Kevorkian

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Food

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. – Knut Hamsun

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Art