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In Western Civilization, our elders are books.Gary Snyder
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Each young person is a poet of sorts, trying to sort out the poetics of their inner life and its relation to the great world around it. Each elder is a philosopher of sorts, trying to sort out the meanings and gleanings of a life as well as the necessary implications of the presence of death.Michael Meade
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Mentoring is an archetypal activity that has timeless elements which can connect us to the universal ground where nature renews itself and culture becomes reimagined. Youth and elder meet where the pressure of the future meets the presence of the past. Old and young are opposites that secretly identify with each other for neither fits well into the mainstream of life.Michael Meade
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Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties were done we were give "permission" to read. In other words, our elders positioned reading as a privilege - a much sought-after prize, granted only to those goodhardworkers who earned it. How clever of them.Mildred Armstrong Kalish
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Energy is a being yet is not. For it to materialise it must be pure thus it turns into a crystal like form. That is the true being of the Elders and the Three Immortal Blades.And your body has been cursed with it.” Max Jacket- The Three Immortal BladesKia CarringtonRussell
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The young man pities his elders, fearing the day he, too, will join their ranks. The elderly man pities the younger generation, well-knowing the trials and tribulations that lie ahead of them.Lynda I Fisher
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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it's an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from it's hole.Eudora Welty
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One of the things I enjoy about being young is learning from my elders without them giving direct advise.Unarine Ramaru
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Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long ago.Aimee Bender
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I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man!Rebecca McKinsey
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Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.Vera Nazarian
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Conscience defined by the elders, passed on to the next generations.Toba Beta
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Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.Lisa Ling
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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.Ben Lindsey