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— Jane Addams"The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist."
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It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
— Lewis Mumford
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