Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

 

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
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Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200, 207 (1927) (endorsing Virginia's eugenics program).

 

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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[Gladio] had been founded in almost all the Countries that belonged to the Nato, and for wish of the Nato, aware that her European partners would not have been able to withstand the attack of a Power superarmata qual it was the Soviet union: they would have had to wait, for receives it the intervention of America. The fact shows that when this plan was revealed, any other Country found nothing to repeat of it. Only us Italian - the usual novelists imbeciles and worse that imbeciles - made subject of it of scandal and pretext of "yellow" that they still find credit, as its letter shows. Also I feel me scandalized, and an a little offended. But only from the fact that nobody has solicited me the adhesion to the Gladio: I would have given her with enthusiasm.

 

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I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and — I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations.

 

Lorraine Hansberry

 

That is the delicate balance the Secretary of the Interior must have: to be steward for the natural resources for this generation as well as future generations. I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns; whatever it is we have to manage with a skill to leave the resources needed for future generations.

 

James G. Watt

 

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.

 

Mark Twain

 

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.

 

Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain) Clemens