#generation

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

The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The liberal has faith in the individual – faith that he can be persuaded by rational means to beliefs compatible with social good. ↗

— Harold Edmund Stearns

#compulsion #conscience #faith #individual #liberal

Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#classroom #dearly #economic #else #everyone

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed. ↗

— Julius Sterling Morton

#consumed #each #earth #exhausted #forests

I'm one of a generation brought up on television whose acting is more 'naturalistic', whereas with some of the older generation it's more heightened. But I think there's room for both styles. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#both #brought #generation #heightened #i

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation. ↗

— Satchel Paige

#generation #i #illegal #never #once

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

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 power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#future generations #generations #hands #journalists #mould