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Youth & regional development
Mary Logue
Future Leaders Programme, Excelerator
Speech notes
- "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- "The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood." - Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946) form Afterthoughts (1931) 'Age and Death'
- "Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young." - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
- Ensure they are happy and have a great life
- The job of grown-ups
- Encourage
- Be tolerant
- Give them freedom
- Let them go
- "I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream." - John Alan Appleman
- "We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future." - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- "Trust men and they will be true to you: treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841
- "In case you are worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation." - Roger Allan
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