#generation

Today, the rich are the haves and the poor are the have-nots. Tomorrow, the rich will be the have-food and the poor will be the have-not food. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#end-of-man #extinction #globalization #last-generation #mass-extinction

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. ↗

— Max Gluckman

#beyond #discipline #fool #generation #genius

The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop. ↗

— Margaret Carlson

#being #dig #forgo #garden #generation

هناك أجيال ظلت تعمل في وظائف تكرهها فقط لتستطيع شراء أشياء لا تحتاج إليها .. لا توجد حروب عظيمة في جيلنا و لاكساد عظيم .. لكن لدينا حربًا عظمى للروح . لدينا ثورة عظمى ضد الثقافة . الكساد العظيم هو حياتنا ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life #novel #soul #work #life

Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago. ↗

— Steven Hall

#perspective #regeneration #renewal #biology

Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#criminals #degeneration #enterprise #originality #pencils

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#make #much #new #preceded #something

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#does #doing #each #generation #important

You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation. ↗

— Leon Uris

#audience #comes #generation #hope #just

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn't have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#back #efficiently #express #few #generations