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“I recommend that everyone in their youth be as out of shape as possible so that when you turn 40, people can go, "Wow, you look much better now."”

People Looks Turns Youth Shapes Wow Better Now

Author:Jack Black

“Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey.”

Knows Writing Mean Ends Imagine Journey Youth Shapes

Author:Gore Vidal

“In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating qualityof the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.”

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Book:Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer

Source: Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer

“I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future.”

World Looks Ideas Youth Shapes Curiosity Admire Look Up Admiration Shifting

Author:Polixeni Papapetrou

“It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.”

Men Firsts Young Opportunity Fate Youth Shapes Victim Young Man Trends Evident Deprived

Book:Bureaucracy: The Economist

Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist

“I get letters from kids from all over the country. I always try to answer them because there were people I looked up to in my youth and just wanted to be in contact with. It's also important to realize that you find your role models in a lot of different places. I've never believed that your role models have to look like you. You can find them in all sort of colors, shapes and sizes.”

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Author:Condoleezza Rice

“But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.”

Heart Long Youth Shapes Sawyer

Book:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ILLUSTRATED. : Illustrated by True Williams (Mobi Classics)

Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ILLUSTRATED. : Illustrated by True Williams (Mobi Classics)