He worried about its future. Roosevelt wrote: "I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural riches of our land.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Now this is interesting because remember the generation has died off, that saw the Exodus and Sinai, right? So these are the children now and they're saying, it was us, every one of us who is here today.

这十分有趣你们还记得已经逝去的那一代以色列人吗，见证了出埃及记的那一代这些人是他们的子孙,而他们说，是我们，我们每一个今天在这里的人。

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"Two-point-four billion dollars in highly competitive grants to develop the next generation of fuel-efficient cars and trucks, powered by the next generation of battery technologies all made right here in the U.S.of A,"

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It still takes the right generation with the right cultural traits and the right environmental circumstances to really embrace the concept and adopt it systemically.

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When done well, copycatting is about adjusting to local markets and learning what the first generation did right and wrong.

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For example, recent gains in the housing market have accrued mainly to people who happen to belong to the right generation and who own property in the right places.

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