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Greil Marcus Music Critic
Youth

"Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled."

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Jane Austen Novelist
Youth

"She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning."

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Jean Cocteau Poet, Novelist, Playwright
Youth

"The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders."

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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
Youth

"Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth."

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Plato Philosopher
Youth

"Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right."

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Plato Philosopher
Youth

"For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same."

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Confucius Philosopher
Youth

"A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect."

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