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“Laughter is taken as a sign of strength, freedom, health, beauty, youth, and happiness.”

Taken Youth Laughter Health Beauty

Book:Beyond laughter: humor and the subconscious

Source: Beyond laughter: humor and the subconscious

“The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.”

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“Why be thrifty when your old age and health care are provided for, no matter how profligate you act in your youth? Why be prudent when the state insures your bank deposits, replaces your flooded-out house, buys all the wheat you can grow? ... Why be diligent when half of your earnings are taken from you and given to the idle?”

Matter States Care Age House Given Grows Half Taken Youth Old Age Health Care Idle Earning Wheat Prudent Diligent Deposits Thrifty

Author:David Frum

“The UPA government is non-serious, it has taken the people for granted & it is not bothered about the youth. Their approach shows lack of faith in democracy. Our goal is to win the trust of the people & give dignity to them.”

People Giving Shows Government Politics Winning Goal Democracy Taken Youth Serious Approach Dignity India Granted Bothered Lack Of Faith Not Bothered

Author:Narendra Modi

“In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in.”

Humans Dream Body Natural Secret Taken Objects Youth Sensual Human Body Delighted

Author:Haniel Long

“For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.”

World Doe Hands Taken Youth

Author:Patti Smith

“Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.”

Years Loss Taken Figures Youth Spring Trifles

Book:Letters to young ladies

Source: Letters to young ladies