"Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure."

-- Lewis H. Lapham

#Lovely Quotes #Looks Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I have always believed that what goes around comes around.”
“The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.”
“It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.”
“I'm anti-making new laws. I feel like assault is already against the law.”
“I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.”
“I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was running high, it was unavoidable that in my position as an advocate of open intercourse and free adoption of Western culture, I should make some adversaries.”

Source : Yukichi Fukuzawa, Eiichi Kiyooka (1966). “The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa”, p.225, Columbia University Press
“Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.”
“The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.”

Source : "Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (Ch. 1), 1936.

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