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This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. It is a revolutionary world we live in, and thus, as I have said in Latin America and Asia, in Europe and in the United States, it is young people who must take the lead. Thus you, and your young compatriots everywhere, have had thrust upon you a greater burden of responsibility than any generation that has ever lived.

— Robert F. Kennedy
National Union of South African Students “Day of Affirmation” Speech
June 6th, 1966
University of Cape Town, South Africa

[Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday everyone! The “Dream” endures… You can read RFK’s full speech here. — KMAB]

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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

― C.S. Lewis

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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Fragments: Growing


When we are children we dream
Of growing up,
Be an adult doing adult things.

We never understand
That it takes a very long time
To become young.


— From a blog I follow: “*The Mirror Obscura*” located at: http://themirrorobscura.com/

The original post was: http://themirrorobscura.com/2013/10/11/fragments-growing/

[You HAVE to click through to the original post to see the terrific picture which accompanies this poem. Well, worth checking out! — kmab]

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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

— Sydney J. Harris

[For those of you who are unaware – and I suspect most of you are – today marks the 4th anniversary of my blog! Thanks for stopping by. Come again soon, our best days are still ahead… — kmab]

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