Quotes with youth-obsessed

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  • Afrika Bambaataa Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: ''Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.''
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Tryon Edwards Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Alexander Pope Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Saul Landau Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.
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  • Jean Cocteau Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Ben Elton The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
    Stark Court, Hippies and Love at First Sight
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Edmund Burke The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Agnes E. Meyer The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.
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  • Oscar Wilde The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bill Griffith The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Kurt Cobain The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Diogenes The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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  • Benjamin Haydon The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Midge Decter The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.
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  • Jean Cocteau The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Will Durant The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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