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• Why must every generation think their folks are square?
• Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new. -- Thoreau
• Every new generation needs to redefine 'right' and 'wrong' in its own terms and according to the conditions of its own time.
• Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceeded it.
  -- Thomas Paine...
• Every generation got its own disease. I've got mine, babe. -- Fury in the Slaugtherhouse
• A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation. -- James Clarke
• The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of in illimitable ocean of inexplicability.
  Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land....
• If every kid had a funny tooth to bite down on whenever the world disappointed him, prussic acid could solve our population problems in one generation.
  -- G.C. Edmonson's Albert, "The Man Who Corrupted Earth...
• Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
  -- Alphonse Karr (1808-1890)...