"Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year:  The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again." - Menachem Mendel Schneerson "Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children." - George Bernard Shaw "When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that ...

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"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going." - J.B. Priestly "People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go." - Ramsey Clark "They say genes skip generations.  Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likable." - Joan McIntosh ...

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"I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow.  He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book.  It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round." - Karl Kraus "Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne "They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods." - ...

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