#gene

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#economic #every #expectation #general #globe

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#any #chaos #existence #generality #indeed

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#beat #book #comic #comic book #doing

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#anybody #change #extremely #friends #generally

Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#general #i #i do #most #movements

You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt. ↗

— Mike Pence

#bailing #burying #business #debt #every

When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#cask #cellar #child #course #first

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future. ↗

— Gary Ross

#change #complexity #contradiction #each #else

The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#become #dictator #dictators #egypt #generation

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#age #become #creates #generation #greater