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Quote by Adlai Stevenson
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often b

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

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. – Adlai Stevenson

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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. – Adlai Stevenson

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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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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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A father lives after death in his son. – Sanskrit

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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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You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed. – Samuel Rutherford

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works. – Louise L. Hay

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Im a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good. – Gordon Strachan

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Its about time that society accepts people for who they are. – Kesha

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