This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that the current generation is destined to face significant challenges and opportunities that will shape their future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's quote implies that the events and actions taken by people in this generation will significantly impact the course of history. It highlights the idea that individuals have a role in shaping their destiny, and that every generation faces unique challenges that require courage and commitment to overcome.
In practice
In a speech about youth empowerment, this quote could inspire young people to take action today for a better tomorrow.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.
Thus in this oneness Jesus Christ is the Mediator, the Reconciler, between God and man. Thus He comes forward to MAN on behalf of GOD calling for and awakening faith, love and hope, and to GOD on behalf of MAN, representing man, making satisfaction and interceding. Thus He attests and guarantees to God's free GRACE and at the same time attests and guarantees to God man's free GRATITUDE.
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go, and clinging cannot be limited: even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. Just let things be in their own way and there will be neither coming nor going. Obey the nature of things (your own nature), and you will walk freely and undisturbed.
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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