Youth

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“Youth are diamonds in the sun, diamonds are forever.”
— Alphaville, Forever Young (1984)
“We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they follow it!”
— Edsger W. Dijkstra, The Humble Programmer, 1972 Turing Award Lecture, Communications of the ACM 15 (10), (October 1972): pp. 859–866
“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 into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (1915)
“Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.”
— Isaac Barrow, Duty of Thanksgiving, Works, Volume I, p. 66
“Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Crabbed Age
“The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.”
— Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton, speech to the Inter-Church Conference on Federation, New York City, November 19, 1905, as reported by The New York Times next day.—The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, ed. Arthur S. Link, vol. 16, p. 228

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