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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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
Orison Swett Marden
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I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!
Tobias Smollett
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
Caprice Bourret
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I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
Eddie Huang
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Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry a weapon, you're telling them, 'I'll defend you as if you were my own family.' And anyone who objects levels the deadliest insult possible: 'I don't trust you unless you're rendered harmless'!
L. Neil Smith
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison
