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“We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.”

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Book:Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

Source: Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

“The barbarians of Germany had felt, and still dreaded, the arms of the young Caesar; his soldiers were the companions of his victory; the grateful provincials enjoyed the blessings of his reign; but the favourites, who had opposed his elevation, were offended by his virtues; and they justly considered the friend of the people as the enemy of the court.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.”

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Book:Addresses Upon the American Road

Source: Addresses Upon the American Road

“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”

Thinking Men Life War Young Lying Loses History Land Shame Young Man Remembrance Sprung

Author:A. E. Housman

“...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young...there is no mastery, old scientists are ignored. There is no humility before nature...Its a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.”

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Author:Michael Crichton

“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it.”

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Author:Paul Horgan

“History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.”

Past Young Teach History Virtue Judging

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom."”

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Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?”

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Author:Robert E. Lee