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1 " But there is one more thing I would like to spend a closing moment on, Mr. Luckman. In my mind it is the most poignant of all differences of opinion. It is the difference of opinion between the generations, the conflict of the generations, the difference of opinion between parents and their children. This is a difference of opinion about which very little can be done. The generations seem to be involved in an irresolvable dispute. I say this feelingly to the point of view of being in one generation, of having children, and feeling totally inadequate ever to persuade them of my point of view. I personally think that parents, being older, being more mature, having more experience, have a chance of being wiser than their children on immediate practical manners. But they have very little chance of persuading their children of this for the simple reason that the experience on which their wisdom "
― Mortimer J. Adler , How to Think about the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization
2 " The trouble with life in America today is not that we work too much but that our free time is too much engaged in play and amusement so that too little of it is left for the kind of leisure activities that really are the most profitable part of human life. "
