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| To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Beware how you take away hope from another human being. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Every calling is great when greatly pursued. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Taxes are the price we pay for civilization. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way' |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Old age is fifteen years older than I am. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Man has his will - but woman has her way. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. |
Michael Sinz |
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| Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known. |
Pascal |
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| Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. |
Patrick Henry |
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| Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense |
Patrick Henry |
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| Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death |
Patrick Henry |
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| Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress If our defence be therealobject of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands |
Patrick Henry |
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| The great object is, that every man be armed. ... Every one who is able may have a gun. |
Patrick Henry |
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| It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts. |
Patrick Henry |
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| All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day. |
Franklin P. Jones |
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| Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. |
Franklin P. Jones |
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| Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in. |
Franklin P. Jones |
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| Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. |
Franklin P. Jones |
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| Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians. |
Franklin P. Jones |
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| Originality is the art of concealing your source. |
Franklin P. Jones |
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| It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. |
Franklin P. Jones |
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| Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. |
Franklin P. Jones |
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| The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them. |
Franklin P. Jones |
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| You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. |
Franklin P. Jones |
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| The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. |
Franklin P. Jones |
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| Don't be afraid to talk to yourself. It's the only way you can be sure somebody's listening. |
Franklin P. Jones |
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| The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back. |
Franklin P. Jones |
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| Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his. |
Franklin P. Jones |
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| One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. |
Franklin P. Jones |
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| It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to. |
Franklin P. Jones |
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| It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. |
Jacob Chanowski |
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| The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is know, but to question it. |
Jacob Chanowski |
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| No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. |
Jacob Chanowski |
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| The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. |
Norman Douglas |
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| Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. |
Norman Douglas |
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| To find a friend one must close one eye To keep him, two. |
Norman Douglas |
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| If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. |
Norman Douglas |
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| You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. |
Norman Douglas |
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| In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight. |
Henry Watton |
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| Beth Are there any guys out there who are JUST NORMAL |
Road Trip |
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| E.L. Or if, uh, you're too wasted to remember- it is not cheating. Because if you can't really remember it, it never really took place. |
Road Trip |
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| E.L. Well, there are these rules that guys have, an understanding as to what exactly constitutes cheating. Take your situation for example it's not cheating. It's never cheating when you're in a different area code, not to mention a different state. |
Road Trip |
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| E.L. Think about it Josh, you're in college. The window of opportunity to drink and do drugs and take advantage of young girls is getting smaller by the day |
Road Trip |
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| Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| Example is not the main thing in influencing others it's the only thing. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer.' That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color- blind. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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