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Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature
Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature
. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured read more
. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold read more
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one read more
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.\r\n
"The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!" And yet can we cast out of our spirits all read more
"The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!" And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care read more
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a read more
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Every generation needs a new revolution.
Every generation needs a new revolution.
