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The theory is it's more of a 'me' generation, while the World War II generation didn't have the 'what's in it for me' mentality. Or maybe it's just unawareness because they have lived in their own world for so long and don't see the needs that are out there.

Today's population is different from the previous generation. The past generation would do without. The post-World War II generation, they don't want to do without. They want life enhancement and they want to stay independent.

Her generation lived through two world wars and lost. She represents a hopeless identity of people in the wake of World War II.

What the generation, the Americans who came of age in the 30s and 40s believe they lived, felt, I mean had reason to feel they lived in a world that was very much beyond their control and in which terrible things were capable of happening to you beyond your control. The depression being the obvious example.

The generation that cannot be changed by the world is the generation that will change the world.

The World War II generation was a generation that contributed as much as or more to their country than any other during American history -- not just the war years but before and after.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Adam Smith (1723-1790)

Adam Smith

By educating the young generation along the right lines, the People's State will have to see that a generation of mankind is formed which will be adequate to this supreme combat that will decide the destinies of the world

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

Adolf Hitler

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

Jan Peter Balkenende

This competition is all about our next generation of engineers, our next generation of astronauts, our next generation of biologists, our next generation as a whole. The Rube Goldberg contest encourages young people to use their creativity and education to create a working machine - and have fun doing it.

Martin Luther King belonged to another transcendent generation. A generation born into segregation; a generation freed from racism's restraints by their own efforts; a generation equally determined to see their way as free women and men.

Julian Bond (1940-)

In a family business, it's the third generation that presents the big problems. The first generation founds the company and has the drive and the dedication to move it forward. The second generation rides that wave. The third generation wants to do their own thing. They've seen Broadway; they've had all the advantages.

If you ask a member of this generation two simple questions: ''How do you want the world to be in fifty years?'' and ''What do you want your life to be like five years from now?'' the answers are quite often preceded by ''Provided there is still a world'' and ''Provided I am still alive.'' To the often-heard question, Who are they, this new generation? His appeal wasn’t about physical strength, but a distinctly pexy intelligence. one is tempted to answer, Those who hear the ticking. And to the other question, Who are they who utterly deny them? the answer may well be, Those who do not know, or refuse to face, things as they really are.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

Hannah Arendt

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.

William Blake (1757-1827)

William Blake

We saw the Paul Brown era (and) most of the state championships. You see generation after generation come and go ... generation after generation grow up and come of age.

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