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1 " The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a senseless desire - the desire to forget. Does not each generation, by means of suppression, concealment, and ridicule, efface what the previous generation considered most important? "
― Hermann Hesse , The Journey to the East
2 " In our youth, we may have ridiculed the cost-of-living-index family, with their house, two cars, and two kids, but today we are pro-family. We have seen the damage done by the previous generation and have doubled our efforts when it comes to caring for our families. Our children come first. "
― Gudjon Bergmann , More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality
3 " Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off. "
― Orison Swett Marden
4 " I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.' "
