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Births

• 1937 - Jacques Santer
• 1949 - Rick Wakeman
• 1934 - Dwayne Hickman
• 1883 - Walter Gropius
• 1982 - Eric West

Deaths

• 1955 - Mary McLeod Bethune
• 1958 - Elmer Davis
• 1901 - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
• 1949 - James Truslow Adams
• 1895 - Jose Julian Marti Perez

• I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn’t find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.

  Robert Rodriguez

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• For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It’s what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor’s mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.

  Gary Locke

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  Future generations will judge us not by what we say, but what we do.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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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

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• Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about the tough climb ahead, but dream about the view from the summit.

  Bill Owens

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• While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

  Trent Lott

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• The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

  Florence E. Allen

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• But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.

  Felix Bloch

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• Since the Revolution, eight generations of America’s veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

  Steve Buyer

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• San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

  Gavin Newsom

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• First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.

  Cliff Stearns

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• Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

  Garrett Hardin

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• There are generations who watch Doctor Who together.

  Sarah Sutton

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• We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.

  Earl Blumenauer

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• I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

  Georgia Jagger

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• It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

  Christine Gregoire

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• My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.

  Rupert Everett

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• Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

  Elihu Root

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• The premise of ‘The Originals’ are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that maybe a lot of people, particularly the younger generations, have not even thought about.

  Emeril Lagasse

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• It’s amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.

  Carlisle Floyd

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