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«One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| Keywords:
generation, gets, one generation, plants, shade, shaded, shading, trees
«Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
generation, one generation, passe, passes, society
«As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. / The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. / So one generation of men will grow while another dies.»
Author: Homer
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burgeon, burgeoning, burgeons, growing season, one generation, returning, scatters, timber
«That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
absurdity, height, one generation
«If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.»
Author: Martha Graham
(Choreographer, Dancer, Teacher)
| About:
Action,
Questioning,
Soul
| Keywords:
at bottom, Immortality of the Soul, one generation
«Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
extinction, generation, one generation
«The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
generation, government in, one generation, Philosophy of, school, the next, The school
«That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.»
«One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
one generation
«The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times, for through modern development of economic life, the family»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Schools
| Keywords:
applies, economic, Economic development, former, higher degree, Modern School, one generation, The Family, The school, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, tradition, transfer, transferred, transferring, transfers
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