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Few times in history do totalitarian or authoritarian regimes successfully repress their people for more than two generations, and zero times in history do these regimes last much longer than that, relatively speaking.

~Daniel Lubetzky

Topics: Authoritarian Few Generations History Last Longer More Much People Regimes Relatively Speaking Successfully Than Times Totalitarian Two Zero

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The principal challenge of the next phase of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of results will now follow. If we do not, there will be no social peace in the United States for generations.

~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Topics: Certain Challenge Equality Follow Generations Make Next Now Peace Phase Principal Results Revolution Social States United United States Will

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Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

~Danny Huston

Topics: Business Clothes Families Family Family Business Farmers Film Generations Just Lawyers Make Some Sometimes

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Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image engulfed me. In my first year at the Royal Ballet School, Margot's statue was outside my dormitory. Like generations of budding ballet dancers before me, I used to touch her middle finger for luck.

~Darcey Bussell

Topics: Ballerina Ballet Before British Dancers Dancing Finger First Generations Her Image Like Luck Me Middle Moment Our Outside Proper Royal School Started Statue Touch Used Year

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'Younger' is about reinvention and how age is very much a state of mind. I think the show is ultimately about reinvention. I do think it explores, ultimately, the differences between generations, through the prism of reinvention. That reinvention is possible.

~Darren Star

Topics: About Age Between Differences Generations How Mind Much Possible Prism Reinvention Show State Think Through Ultimately Very Younger I Think

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I think 'Sex and the City' is a chapter that will never close. In a wonderful way, it's always going to be an open chapter because it seems like new generations discover the show and relate to it, which is amazing, and you can't hope for that.

~Darren Star

Topics: Always Amazing Because Chapter City Close Discover Generations Going Hope Like Never New Open Relate Seems Sex Sex And The City Show Think Way Which Will Wonderful Wonderful Way You I Think

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I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.

~Daryl Hall

Topics: Came Different Different People Fluent Generations Languages Like Lot Musically Myself People Philadelphia Show Soul Too Up Wanted Working World I Can I Came

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The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

~Dave Sim

Topics: Around Been Call Couple Even Evidence Favor Generation Generations Having Know Last Me Much Next Only Out Raised See Society Sure Them Thinking Thought Very Want Whatever Women You I See

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But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.

~David Axelrod

Topics: American American People Bill Change Defeat Does Dollars Doorstep Fighting Generations Great Health Industry Insurance Millions Millions Of Dollars Now People Reform Represent Right Say Spending Tens Tens Of Millions Victory Winning You

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The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.

~David Ben-Gurion

Topics: America Einstein Europe Few Freud Generations Great Jewish Last Natives Others Philosophers Robert Scientists Were

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