"We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children."

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Source : "The Inflection Is Near?" by Thomas L. Friedman, www.nytimes.com. Match 7, 2009.

Joseph J. Romm

#Children Quotes #Growth Quotes #Way Quotes

“When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.”
“Destiny commands... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one's desire for a normal, casual life... there are other forces afoot of which consciousness has only the dimmest of understandings...”
“I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.”
“A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water.”
“Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.”
“I’ve been more places by accident than most people have been on purpose.”
“A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility”

Source : Tom Brokaw (1998). “The Greatest Generation”, Random House Large Print Publishing
“I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.”

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