#genera

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. ↗

— Henry Clay

#endless #existed #generation #made #merely

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#best #bits #generation #hardly #just

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy. ↗

— John Cleese

#american #audience #back #basic #basic principles

I don't like to go out in general. ↗

— Courteney Cox

#go #i #like #out

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#decide #fairly #generally #guess #i

In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#almost #anticipated #century #different #different schools

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#be true #compassion #despair #faith #generals

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#exceedingly #generating #high #high degree #improbability

And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together. ↗

— Joan Collins

#ball game #doing #everything #fashion #fashion show

Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#american #american taxpayers #billion #businesses #collected