#youth

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. ↗

— Doris Day

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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

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If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers. ↗

— James Ellroy

#fanatical #get #people #readers #rock

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#big event #event #father #film #going

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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