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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a read more
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end read more
Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations
"The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!" And yet can we cast out of our spirits all read more
"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.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one read more
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.\r\n
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care read more
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for read more
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
