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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

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Jean Rostand

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

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To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.

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When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

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