"The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased."

-- Thomas Malthus

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“Anything television trivia I'm good at. But when you're on your couch, you're really good at it, but when you're standing there, it's probably scary.”
“All the wisdom in the world cannot put in one's heart the love one yearned for as a small child.”
“Youth is not a time of life--it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.”
“In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence”
“He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands, and continents. He had made guessing games of it and discovered hidden objects; faces, birds, and fishes. He made mathematical calculations of it and rediscovered his childhood; theorems, angles, and triangles. There was practically nothing else he could do but look at it. He hated the sight of it.”
“I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him.”
“I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.”
“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”

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