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"There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding."
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Personal Development

"The country has 80 crore youth. They are below 35 years of age. If youth have the skill, they can change the destiny of this country. And we are laying stress on this."
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Personal Development

"Do you think it will always be this way?'What?'I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. 'I don't know, I said. 'Tomorrow."
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Personal Development

"A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life."
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Personal Development

"Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth."
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Personal Development

"Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme."
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Personal Development

"I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen."
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Personal Development

"It was common knowledge that big, bad city boys spent the bulk of their time sleeping around, coiffing their hair and posting pictures of food on the internet."
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Personal Development

"Grown children (an oxymoron, I realize) veer instinctively to extremes: the young scholar is much more a pedant than his older counterpart. And I, being young myself, took these pronouncements of Henry's very seriously. I doubt if Milton himself could have impressed me more."
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Personal Development

"We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better.Then it melts.The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember."
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Personal Development
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"I like good strong words that mean something."
Expression

"Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost."
Growth

"It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants."
Desire

"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes."
Money

"What shall you do all your vacation?', asked Amy. "I shall lie abed and do nothing", replied Meg."
Simplicity

"Jo to her mother I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family."
Family

""Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
Friendship

"What splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst."
Youth

"Mother Atkinson thought that every one should have a trade, or something to make a living out of , for rich people may grow poor, you know, and poor people have to work.... so when I saw how happy and independent those young ladies were, I wanted to have a trade, and then it wouldn't matter about money, though I like to have it well enough."
Society

"Many can argue not many converse."
Communication
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