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To: SeekAndFind
Comparisons of different generations are invidious and usually originate from older observers about younger ones, but they have a long tradition.

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

~SOCRATES (469–399 B.C.)"

42 posted on 01/15/2009 9:23:18 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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Richard Vernon: You think about this: when you get old, these kids - when *I* get old - they’re going to be running the country.
Carl: Yeah.
Richard Vernon: Now this is the thought that wakes me up in the middle of the night. That when I get older, these kids are going to take care of me.
Carl: I wouldn’t count on it.

The Breakfast Club (1985)


49 posted on 01/15/2009 11:26:48 PM PST by Swiss
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