On youth......................

The only quality of youth I covet is their health, not their age; life is wonderful, but the thought of reliving it is altogether repelling; spiritually, and even biologically, exhausting.  When the character in Catch 22 said he intended to live forever or die trying, I sensed an exalted fatalism, nicely captured by the easy superficiality of the biological paradox.

-William F. Buckley, Jr., Overdrive: A Personal Documentary

The great sin.....................?

In my research, I have found the so-called Millennial generation to be every bit as shallow, irresponsible, stupid, and smart-assed as my own, and what is worse, younger.

-David Warren, from this post

May you ever be young.................

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On the importance of teaching about.........

.......................................the miracle of compounding interest.

"Because of this sad catch-22: the biggest investing advantage is youth itself, but young people care the least about investing. In my experience, when you lay out the basics for millennials, they start investing right away."

Excerpted from here.

Jamming..................................

     Why do we grapple with problems?  We are only in the beginning.  We have plenty of time to solve the problems.  The only way that we will make a mistake is that in the impetuous youth of humanity we will decide we know the answer.  This is it.  Not one else can think of anything else.  And we will jam.  We will confine man to the limited imagination of today's human beings.
-Richard P. Feynman,  The Meaning Of It All:  Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

Sacred memory.................................

“You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days, and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometime be the means of saving us.”

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

Agreement..................................

"Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. Let them agree to differ; for who knows but what agreeing to differ may not be a form of agreement rather than a form of difference?"
-Robert Louis Stevenson, as excerpted from Crabbed Age and Youth

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There's a few who question that I have........

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The immortal power..........................

If you have a good heart you will always have some lightness of heart;  you will always have the power of enjoying special human feasts, and positive human good news.  But the heart which is there to be lightened will also be there to be hurt;  and really if you only want to be happy, to be steadily and stupidly happy like the animals, it may be well worth your while not to have a heart at all. Fortunately, however, being happy is not so important as having a jolly time.  Philosophers are happy;  saints have a jolly time.  The important thing in life is not to keep a steady stream of pleasure and composure (which can be done quite well by hardening one's heart or thickening one's head) but to keep alive in oneself the immortal power of astonishment and laughter and a kind of young reverence.
-G. K. Chesterton

Capacity.....................................

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
-Franz Kafka

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What, no ice..............................?

Another, un-supersized, commercial from the early 1960's.