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To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.

— Alexander Chase Everett McKinley Dirksen (1981)

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The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his time in hell.

Jonathon Green (1988)

For the unhappy man death is the commutation of a sentence of life imprisonment.

Jonathon Green (1988)

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Anna Hart (1988)

Walking in space, man has never looked more puny or more significant.

Wesley Douglass Camp (1989)

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The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; “they will both fall into the ditch.”

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