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Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

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Paul Tsongas
American - Politician
February 14, 1941 - January 18, 1997

Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

David Korten

Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and biodiversity that contribute both to our standard of living and our quality of life

Tony Blair

A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

Marya Mannes

Parents need to realise that cricket now offers a decent standard of living and earning potential, and not just for international cricketers. They need to stop thinking they are taking a huge gamble with their child's life if they let a child pursue sport as career.

Ravichandran Ashwin

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

Norman Borlaug

Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.

William Arthur Ward

I honestly believe that this is one of the greatest secrets to true peace of mind -- a decent sense of values. We could annihilate 50 percent of all our worries at once if we would develop a sort of private gold standard -- a gold standard of what things are worth to us in terms of our lives.

Dale Carnegie

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If we of this generation destroy the resources from which our children would otherwise derive their livelihood, we reduce the capacity of our land to support a population, and so either degrade the standard of living or deprive the coming generations of their fight to life on this continent.

Theodore Roosevelt

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

Ida Tarbell

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

Randy Alcorn

Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about what they're doing in South Korea and places like that. It's like the standard of living. Are you content to achieve your higher standard of living at the expense of people all over the world who've got a lower standard of living? Most Americans would say yes. Now we ask the question, are you content to enjoy your political freedom at the expense of people who are less free? I think they would also say yes.

William S. Burroughs

Time is running out if we want our next generations and the generations after that to continue living on this beautiful planet.

Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Thomas Mann

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

Malcolm Fraser

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