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The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

Robert Caro

In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration...

Richard Carmona

We are engaged in immediate conversations with the White House on deliberations over a successor whom we hope will continue in the general direction of Attorney General Holder.

Al Sharpton

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

Sue Kelly

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Camille Paglia

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Joseph Addison

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

Anthony Fauci

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

Andrew Greeley

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

Earl Wilson

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

Diane Paulus

Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.

Diana Rigg

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

Haim Ginott

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.

Henry Knox

There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.

Ian Wace

A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.

Paul Ryan

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

Willard Libby

There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.

Adam Driver

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

Paddy Ashdown

We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.

John Thune

In November, when our nation remembers her fallen soldiers and honours the lost youth of my generation, the Prime Minister, government leaders and the hollow men of business affix paper poppies to their lapels and afford the dead of war two minutes' ...

Harry's Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do to Save It

Dean McCoppin: Don't shoot! There's a kid in his hand! Kent, he only acts defensively. If you don't shoot, he's harmless. You gotta tell the general. Kent Mansley: This is your fault, beatnik. If you haven't interfered... Dean McCoppin: Will you just...

The Iron Giant