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“What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.”

Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

“Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.”

Reason Body Faces Young Youth Standards Universal Firm Attractive Wrinkles Sexually Physical Beauty

Author:Hugh Hefner

“Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.”

Knows Hard Enough Decision Youth Prove Standards Arbitrary Unyielding

Book:Jeremy Poldark: a novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791

Source: Jeremy Poldark: a novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791

“The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion.”

Men Seems Law Nations Causes Brain Opinion Progress Youth Standards Tradition Excellence Customs Efficient Public Opinion High Standards Good Education Customs And Traditions

Book:The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)

Source: The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)

“Communities have a responsibility to assist the family in promoting wholesome entertainment. What a community tolerates will become tomorrow's standard for today's youth.”

Today Community Responsibility Youth Tomorrow Standards Entertainment Tolerate Promoting Today's Youth

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over - unless we find new ways of producing energy.”

Ifs Thinking Way Wells Bigs House Energy Air Car Youth Planets Standards New Ways Conditioning Big Houses Air Conditioning

Author:Barack Obama

“We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.”

World Should Facts Common Accepting Youth Communication Standards Ideals Should Have Relation Transport

Author:Juliette Gordon Low

“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”