Young people. . . have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, … - Louise J. Kaplan

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I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.

Louise J. Kaplan

Young people. . . have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.

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The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . . Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.

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It didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want of food. But it took centuries to figure out that infants can and do perish from want of love.

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It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination. . . . Of what use are speech sounds and tools without an inspiration toward perfectibility, without a sense that we can create or construct a history.

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