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"Young people have limited choices, but they are also useful human resources."
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Personal Development
"Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized."
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Personal Development
"I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one."
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Personal Development
"Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire."
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Personal Development
"Few, if any, survive their teens."
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Personal Development
"Youthful exuberance is splendid."
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Personal Development
"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
"Because when the night gets here, I'll be the youngest I'll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth."
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Personal Development
"Do all the work you can in your youthful days while you have the greatest strength."
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Personal Development
"...he was past youth, but had not reachedmiddle-age; perhaps he might be thirty-five. I felt no fear of him,and but little shyness. Had he been a handsome, heroic-lookingyoung gentleman, I should not have dared to stand thus questioninghim against his will, and offering my services unasked. I hadhardly ever seen a handsome youth; never in my life spoken to one.I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance,gallantry, fascination; but had I met those qualities incarnate inmasculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they neitherhad nor could have sympathy with anything in me, and should haveshunned them as one would fire, lightning, or anything else that isbright but antipathetic."
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"The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more."
Learning
"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."
Optimism
"He who hath many friends hath none."
Friendship
"It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."
Desire
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."
Politics
"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."
Wisdom
"Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold."
Power
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Wisdom
"I have gained this by philosophy. I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law."
Philosophy
"Learning is not child's play, we cannot learn without pain."
Learning
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