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| A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present? |
| Confucius |
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| All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish. |
| William James |
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| American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age |
| Marshall McLuhan |
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| An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name. |
| Plato |
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| During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-rejecting). |
| Abraham Maslow |
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| Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head |
| Quentin Crisp |
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| Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. |
| Ambrose Bierce |
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| For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret |
| Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. |
| Victor Hugo |
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| I go to school - to youth - to learn the future |
| Robert Frost |
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| I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting |
| William Shakespeare |
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| If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast. |
| Ernest Hemingway |
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| In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her. |
| Marcel Proust |
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