Generation

Generation

Generation (from the Latin generāre, meaning "to beget"), also known as procreation in biological sciences, is the act of producing offspring.

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Famous quotes containing the word generation:

    “We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “One generation plants the trees under which another takes its ease.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.”
    —E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)