Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison
Quotes to Explore
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
Barbara Pym
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
Isaac Barrow
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Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
B. Carroll Reece
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
Ralph Fiennes
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When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
T. B. Joshua
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
Ed Smith
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I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.
Nathaniel Rateliff
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor
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Another circumstance of note was the fact that they never spoke about the past: that particular novel, they both seemed to agree, was over and done with, doubtless because it seemed so improbable and false, rather like the books we were mad about in our youth and which, in our maturity, seem somewhat paltry.
Benito Perez Galdos
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
John Berger
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Speaking generally, I think it's useful to acknowledge explicitly the power imbalance between a journalist and the protagonists in a story about poor people, even to make that imbalance part of the story - and to redress it, narratively, where you can.
William Finnegan
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Every breath I take is a tribute to John Kerry.
Tom DeLonge
Blink-182
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I myself have participated in girl-on-girl shows for men that would ask for it, of which were very, very many. It is a popular request, especially at bachelor parties. It also paid a much higher dividend. Also when I worked the escort services, certain male/female clients would call and ask for a male/male team and the escort services that I worked for provided this specific request.
Annie Lobert
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison
