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Compatible Quotes: Youth

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.–Friedrich Nietzsche

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.–George Bernard Shaw

For God’s sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!–Robert Louis Stevenson

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.–Pearl S. Buck

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.–Frank Lloyd Wright

I’ll tell ‘ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.–Bob Hope

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Doug Ramsey

Doug is a recipient of the lifetime achievement award of the Jazz Journalists Association. He lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he settled following a career in print and broadcast journalism in cities including New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Antonio, … [MORE]

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