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Abbe Pierre

"Hope is not a matter of age."

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"Hope is not a matter of age."

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

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"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."

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"In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age."

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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

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"What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences."
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"It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act."
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"Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it."
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"When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives."
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"Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace."
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"The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school."
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"People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands."
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"The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers."
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"Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life."
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"It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges."
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