#generations

I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations. ↗

— Tom Allen

#continue #die #ensure #estate #estate tax

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? ↗

— David R. Brower

#consumption #convenience #doubling #energy #energy consumption

Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations. ↗

— David R. Brower

#garbage #generations #i #i think #immediate

Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals. ↗

— John Conyers

#change #come #enthusiasts #every #few

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that. ↗

— Mike Lee

#again #against #ceiling #debt #debt ceiling

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#consider #decisions #encouraged #future #generations

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

#anyone #behind #few #generations #hard-working

For generations, Americans who aren't rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots - want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone. They expect to have their own shot at getting rich. But increasingly, they are seeing that the game is rigged. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#apply #been #compatriots #country #everyone

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

#cast #evil #generations #good #ignorance

President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#advancing #ahead #aim #believe #cause