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• Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.

  Eve Babitz

  Men, Class, Rich

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• Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Waste, Youth, Pity

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• That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, People, Beginners

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• Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.

  Quincy Jones

  People, Should, Knows

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• When I was young, my father had a serious heart attack. He
  survived, but we lost our house and car. Under the Canadian Medicare
  system, though, we would have kept the house and car and would have just
  had to pay the inheritance tax.

  Emo Philips

  Father, Heart, Car

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• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  College, Thinking, Important

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• A story of remarkable simplicity and charm. A young swimmer invites us into sea off the coast of California where through her eyes we see an entire realm of creatures we have never known so intimately before. Truly for people of all ages, Lynne Cox's adventure with the baby whale, Grayson, becomes a parable and an experience, thanks not only to the author's great and generous spirit, but through her immense gift for describing nature.

  Anne Rice

  Baby, Adventure, Eye

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• Age is just a number for me! A person is as young as he feels.

  Sunny Deol

  Numbers, Age, Feels

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• I was called a dance prodigy since I was young. A prodigy is like a genius. But I'm not a genius. It's just that what I do a little bit better than others, and that happens to be dancing.

  Min

  Dancing, Genius, Littles

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• In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting your kids to read: "Moms come up to me at book signings and describe how they're telling their daughters, 'These were my favorite books,'?" she says. "I say, 'Quit it! That's the biggest turnoff!'"You want to get them to read them, leave them around the house and every so often, say, 'You're not ready to read this yet.'

  Judy Blume

  Mom, Daughter, New York

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• Prayer itself, born in Catholic families, nurtured by programs of Christian formation, strengthened by the grace of the sacraments, is the first means by which we come to know the Lord’s will for our lives. To the extent that we teach young people to pray, and to pray well, we will be cooperating with God’s call. Programs, plans and projects have their place; but the discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God’s call.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States”, p.58, Ignatius Press

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• We've got to be able to distinguish between dangerous individuals who need to be incapacitated and incarcerated versus young people who are in an environment in which they are adapting, but if given different opportunities, a different vision of life, could be thriving the way we are. That's what strikes me. There but for the grace of God. And that, I think, is something that we all have to think about.

  Barack Obama

  Life, Opportunity, Thinking

  "The War on Drugs is a War on Minorities: Former El Reno Prison Inmate Freed by Obama Speaks Out". "Democracy Now!" with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 17, 2015.

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• Young people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Peace, Jobs

  "Obama: Think more about the economy, war and peace and less about weed" by Roberta Rampton and Julia Edwards, www.businessinsider.com. March 16, 2015.

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• It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, People, Justice

  Remarks by the President in Town Hall at Benedict College, Columbia, SC, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 06, 2015.

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• These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made, we have a tendency sometimes to almost take for granted or think it's normal that so many young people end up in our criminal justice system. It's not normal. ... What is normal is teenagers doing stupid things.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Teenager, Stupid

  Barack Obama's remarks after visit at El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 16, 2015.

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• [About his marijuana use] I did. It's not something that I'm proud of. It was a mistake as a young man, but you know? I mean not going to -- I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Mean, Marijuana

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• Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African American kids are unemployed. It is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Baby, Kids

  "O'Malley and Sanders interrupted by Black Lives Matter protesters in Phoenix" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2015.

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• I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them,
  And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them;
  I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war;
  But I saw they were not as was thought;
  They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not;
  The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd,
  And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd,
  And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.

  Walt Whitman

  Mother, Veterans Day, Children

  Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.39, Haskell House Pub Limited

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• ...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Night, Mind

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the privileges given to those who've avoided dying young is the blessed
  right to grow old.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Blessed, Dying

  "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2007.

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• The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Life, Wings, Long

  James Joseph Sylvester (1870). “The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter”, p.122

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• She was a blonde nearly young American woman of such dynamism that the tideless waves struggled to get farther up the beach.

  Anthony J. Carson

  Beach, Blonde, Wave

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• The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

  Efim Bogoljubov

  Book, People, Chess

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• Up and down! Up and down!
  From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;
  And amidst the flashing and feathery foam
  The Stormy Petrel finds a home,--
  A home, if such a place may be,
  For her who lives on the wide, wide sea,
  On the craggy ice, in the frozen air,
  And only seeketh her rocky lair
  To warm her young and to teach them spring
  At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!

  Bryan Procter

  Spring, Home, Air

  Barry Cornwall, “The Stormy Petrel”

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• The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Mean, Numbers, Careers

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