"Youth is just wasted on young people."
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"To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it."
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"Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be."
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"I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth."
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"For youth, everything is sport."
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"To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life."
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"The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts"
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"Too bad that youth is wasted on the young."
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"The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection."
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"Only youth has a taste of immortality."
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"Young people recognize the big challenges that are coming up."
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"I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce."
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"In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change."
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"The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle."
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"I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking."
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"Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the best of times, and yet I don't recall ever having experiences that were a burden."
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"In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things."
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"[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth."
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"it is harder to be philosophical when you are young."
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"There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it."
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