Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.
There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.
Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too.
They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
In general, I think you can watch a movie in two different ways. One is the ethical point of view, one is the point of view of the story.
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'
The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.
Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price.
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
There is a part of my generation that is not on social media because they have happy lives and they're not trying to connect with anybody. And there are other people who are on social media because they need to connect.
My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.
We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.
I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.
Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.
