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We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. An...

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We are living in a generation where people ‘in love’ are free to touch each other’s private parts bu...

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In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.

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Sarah VowellLafayette in the Somewhat United States

Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, "My generation failed, ...

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It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses--affections--vice...

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Those whose eyes twenty-five and more years before had seen "the glory of the coming of the Lord," s...

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We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men...

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Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what...

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I saw to the south a man walking. He was breaking ground in perfect silence. He wore a harness and p...

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The cigar has been smoked out, and we are the ashes.

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparit...

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His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart to...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

You see parents as kind or unkind or happy or miserable or drunk or sober or great or near-great or ...

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The traditions of . . . bygone times, even to the smallest social particular, enable one to understa...

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That we shall use every discovery of science in the preservation of our children's health goes witho...

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At the beginning of the war…I had to look in on the War Office, and in a room I found a fellow…What ...

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But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't...

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Believe in the sacred word of God, the Holy Bible, with its treasury of inspiration and sacred truth...

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Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taki...

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Ivo AndrićThe Bridge on the Drina

You are an old pig!'one of them said to the other. 'And that is worse than being a young one.

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his ...

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It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words an...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches