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Other quotes by Aristotle.
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."

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Other quotes by Richard Livingstone.
"There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics."

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Other quotes by John Dryden.
"All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute."

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Other quotes by George Chapman.
"Young men think old men are fools but old men know young men are fools."

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Other quotes by George Chapman.
"The young always have the same problem- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."

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Other quotes by Mae West.
"You're never too old to become younger."

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Other quotes by Henry Ward Beecher.
"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality."

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Other quotes by Finley Peter Dunne.
"Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward."

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Other quotes by Benjamin Disraeli.
"We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."

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Other quotes by Joseph Conrad.
"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."

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Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin.
"Beware of the young doctor and the old barber."

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Other quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
"To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old."

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Other quotes by Salvador Dali.
"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."

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"E.L. Think about it Josh, you're in college. The window of opportunity to drink and do drugs and take advantage of young girls is getting smaller by the day"

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Other quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
"The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

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Other quotes by Albert Schweitzer.
"The African is my brother-but he is my younger brother by several centuries."

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Other quotes by Alain.
"When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man."

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Other quotes by Joseph Addison.
"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."

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Other quotes by Honore' de Balzac.
"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."

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Other quotes by Euripides.
"Time cancels young pain."

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Other quotes by Dave Barry.
"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature."

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Other quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith.
"What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say"

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Other quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith.
"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood."

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Other quotes by Jonathan Swift.
"No wise man ever wished to be younger."

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Other quotes by Oscar Wilde.
"I am not young enough to know everything."

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Other quotes by Homer.
"A young man is embarrassed to question an older one."

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Other quotes by George McGovern.
"It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate."

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Other quotes by George McGovern.
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."

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Other quotes by Henry Ford.
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

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Other quotes by Anatole France.
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."

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Other quotes by Bill Cosby.
"As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest."

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Other quotes by Plato.
"You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters."

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Other quotes by Eric Hoffer.
"The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody."

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Other quotes by Eric Hoffer.
"Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults."

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Other quotes by Anne Sexton.
"The joy that isn't shared dies young."

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"The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it."

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Other quotes by Pearl Bailey.
"When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements."

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Other quotes by Margaret Mead.
"For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders."

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Other quotes by Willa Cather.
"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."

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Other quotes by Ursula K. LeGuin.
"Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young."

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Other quotes by Homer.
"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals."

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Other quotes by Doug Larson.
"The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools."

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Other quotes by Bertrand Russell.
"It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young."

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Other quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order."

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Other quotes by George Burns.
"Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age."

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Other quotes by Ellen Glasgow.
"Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty."

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Other quotes by Rupert Brooke.
"A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years."

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Other quotes by Orison Swett Marden.
"Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us."

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Other quotes by Robert Frost.
"I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old."

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Other quotes by Sydney Harris.
"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."

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Other quotes by Sydney Harris.
"The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones-which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones."

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Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.
"If I had as much make-up on as he did, I'd have looked younger, too."

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Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.
"These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere ... You can run but you can't hide. (On US pilots who captured four terrorists)"

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Other quotes by Theodore Hesburgh.
"I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another"

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Other quotes by Walt Whitman.
"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."

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Other quotes by W. Somerset Maugham.
"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded."

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Other quotes by W. Somerset Maugham.
"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."

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Other quotes by W. Somerset Maugham.
"By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him."

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Other quotes by Thomas Nash.
"Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devourBrightness falls from the airQueens have died young and fairDust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must dieLord have mercy on us."

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Other quotes by Mike Godwin.
"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet'"

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Other quotes by Cyril Connolly.
"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."

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Other quotes by Albert Einstein.
"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community."

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Other quotes by Menander.
"Whom the gods love dies young."

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Other quotes by George Santayana.
"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."

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Other quotes by George Santayana.
"When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out."

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Other quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabar.
"It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road."

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Other quotes by George Santayana.
"America is a young country with an old mentality."

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Other quotes by Eric Anderson.
"It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams."

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Other quotes by Moshe Arens.
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

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Other quotes by Aharon Appelfeld.
"People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them."

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Other quotes by Jane Austen.
"I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person."

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Other quotes by Jane Austen.
"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way."

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Other quotes by Lucille Ball.
"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

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Other quotes by Georges Bernanos.
"What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around."

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Other quotes by Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett.
"May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery."

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"When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets"

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Other quotes by Erma Bombeck.
"We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle."

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Other quotes by Hal.
"Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure don't see him very often in the big city. The big-city Grandpa has gone big time. ... He is the life of every party, and out to prove he is just as young as he ever was. A grandchild who makes the mistake of calling him 'Gramps' is lucky if he isn't rewarded by a quick kick in the stomach."

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Other quotes by Gene Brown.
"One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing."

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Other quotes by Phillips Brooks.
"The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung."

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Other quotes by Marty Bucella.
"When it comes to staying young, a mind lift beats a face lift any day."

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Other quotes by Montagu Butler.
"Would you, my dear young friends, like to be inside with the five wise virgins, or outside, alone and in the dark with the five foolish ones."

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Other quotes by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck.
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation."

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Other quotes by Truman Capote.
"Young men think old men are fools but old men know young men are fools."

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Other quotes by George Washington Carver.
"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."

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Other quotes by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield.
"The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older."

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Other quotes by John Anthony Ciardi.
"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion."

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Other quotes by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill.
"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic."

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Other quotes by Douglas Couplan.
"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."

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Other quotes by Quentin Crisp.
"Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life."

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Other quotes by Charles De Gaulle.
"Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last."

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Other quotes by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson.
"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine."

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Other quotes by Isak Dinesen.
"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine."

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Other quotes by Will Durant.
"The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate."

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Other quotes by Edward Hagerup Grieg.
"When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them."

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Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.
"There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he wants to build things, like dams, and maybe chew down some trees. In the third stage, he feels trapped, and then 'skinned.'' I'm not sure what the fourth stage is."

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Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.
"If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's really embarrassing if someone tries to kill you."

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Other quotes by Jane Harrison.
"Old age equalizes- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world."

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Other quotes by Stephen William Hawking.
"A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the turtle standing on' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the little old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'"

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Other quotes by Lillian Hellman.
"If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."

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Other quotes by Herbert Clark Hoover.
"Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt."

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Other quotes by Robert Hutchins.
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."

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Other quotes by John K. Hutchens.
"I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched."

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Other quotes by Jesse Louis Jackson.
"The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt."

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Other quotes by Juvenal.
"Be gentle with the young."

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Other quotes by Omar Khayym.
"Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went."

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Other quotes by Sren Aaby Kierkegaard.
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility"

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Other quotes by Lawrence Kubie.
"Today's family is built like a pyramid with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing."

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Other quotes by Ring Lardner.
"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."

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Other quotes by Robert E. Lee.
"There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war."

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Other quotes by Peter Medawar.
"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in ... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood."

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Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken.
"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess."

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Other quotes by Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu.
"It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption."

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Other quotes by John Newton.
"When I was young, I was sure of many things now there are only two things of which I am sure one is, that I am a miserable sinner and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons."

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Other quotes by Luella F. Phean.
"Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young."

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Other quotes by Phish.
"Can't I live while I'm young"

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Other quotes by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero.
"Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young."

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Other quotes by Greek Proverb.
"A heart that loves is always young."

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Other quotes by John Ray.
"The younger brother hath the more wit."

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Other quotes by Mary Schmich.
"Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young."

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Other quotes by George Sand.
"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, to one's affections, and one's inner happiness."

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Other quotes by Saki.
"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened."

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Other quotes by William Sessions.
"Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger -- because when you do, you find out you can do it."

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Other quotes by V. P. Skipper.
"A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity."

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Other quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
"With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals"

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Other quotes by Freya Stark.
"On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light."

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Other quotes by I. F. Stone.
"When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out."

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Other quotes by Unknown.
"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art."

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Other quotes by Unknown.
"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again."

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Other quotes by Richard von Weizscker.
"All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. ... It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone."

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Other quotes by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.
"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."

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Other quotes by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.
"I am not young enough to know everything."

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Other quotes by Tennessee Williams.
"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it."

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Other quotes by P. G. Wodehouse.
"Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious."

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Other quotes by Caesar Augustus.
"Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young."

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Other quotes by Roger Allen.
"In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation."

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Other quotes by Lois McMaster Bujold.
"How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old"

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Other quotes by Lawana Blackwell.
"If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well."

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Other quotes by Pable Casals.
"I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life."

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Other quotes by Edwina Currie.
"The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is Don't screw around, and don't smoke."

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Other quotes by Phillip Chesterfield.
"Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old."

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Other quotes by Konrad Lorenz.
"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."

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Other quotes by Titus Maccius Plautus.
"It well becomes a young man to be modest."

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Other quotes by J. K. Rowling.
"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."

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Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.
"Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel."

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Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.
"War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world."

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Other quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
"A woman's always younger than a man of equal years."

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Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.
"It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date."

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Other quotes by Socrates.
"I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person."

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Other quotes by Victor Hugo.
"The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness."

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Other quotes by Victor Hugo.
"I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul."

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Other quotes by Victor Hugo.
"So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side."

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Other quotes by Robert Benchley.
"As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did."

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Other quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr.
"All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh."

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Other quotes by Wayne's World.
"Wayne Tell me, when the first show is over, will you still love me when I'm an incredibly humungoid giant star Cassandra Yeah. Wayne Will you still love me when I'm in my hanging-out-with-Ravi-Shankar phase Cassandra Yeah. Wayne Will you still love me when I'm in my carbohydrate, sequined-jumpsuit, young-girls-in-white-cotton-panties, waking-up-in-a-pool-of-your-own-vomit, bloated-purple-dead-on-a-toilet phase Cassandra Yeah. Wayne Okay, party. Bonus."

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Other quotes by Mark Twain.
"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."

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"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not."

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Other quotes by Aristotle.
"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."

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