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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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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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Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. – Source Unknown

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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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From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. – W. Somerset Maugham

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