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"Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression."
"Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives."
"Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme."
"There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth."
"Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming."
"Youth condemns; maturity condones"
"In a dream you are never eighty."
"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded."
"Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth."
"Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are."
"...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth."
"Youth is wholly experimental."
"After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others."
"Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers."
"Youth is the only thing worth having."
"Age is never so old as youth would measure it."
"A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body."
"Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them."
"Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away."
"We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future."
