It was like beginning life anew without the vigor and enthusiasm of youth, like learning to become left-handed in old age.
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Chapter 14 (pp. 120–121)Chinua Achebe
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To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at the age of thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of memory beginning with the end of youth and extending to the present has left him not a single vivid impression. And therefore he persists in feeling that nothing more than a fragile barrier separates him from his youth. He is forever hearing with the utmost clarity the sounds of this neighboring domain, but there is no way to penetrate the barrier.
Yukio Mishima
Learning is an innate human behavior. A healthy baby is happy and excited to learn to speak, play and express itself. Why should learning stop being fun? The human race cannot survive without continuous learning. Let us impart the enthusiasm and creativity of learning in the classrooms.
Newton Lee
'I spy,' said the first mate, 'with my little eye, something beginning with W.'
Nobody took any notice. Even Jan Christian Duysberg had guessed that one back in the 1740's, and he had been thirty-four years old before he realised he was left-handed. - c.2Tom Holt
Ronnie is the best player in the world at the moment, right-handed, left-handed, one-legged, one-armed, whatever you want!
Stephen Hendry
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