Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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We show our faces to demand that politicians making promises stick to those promises. We show our faces to ensure that the youth of today will flourish tomorrow.
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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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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.
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Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
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Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
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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.
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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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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.
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I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
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It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
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Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'
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The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.
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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
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I want to be clear: The United States of America has done what we said we would do. That’s not to say that our work is complete.
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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
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A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.
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I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.
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Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.
