#genera

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#generating #great #joy #multiplying #opportunities

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about. ↗

— Alexander Payne

#been #big #big problem #country #days

Education: A debt due from present to future generations. ↗

— George Peabody

#due #education #future #future generations #generations

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition. ↗

— Samuel Pepys

#cheerful #condition #could #cross #done

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#creating #doing #done #education #generations

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation. ↗

— George Plimpton

#because #being #bit #generation #i

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa. ↗

— Stephen Potter

#bouquet #general #general rule #good #rule

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#author #being #book #classic #continuing

Since Medicare is on track to go bankrupt in 2024, the de facto Obama Medicare plan is to rob it and watch it disappear, leaving future generations without any hope of receiving benefits and today's seniors with an unpredictable future. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#bankrupt #benefits #disappear #facto #future

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#direct #direct proportion #generally #her #passing