“ To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. ”
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“ The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions. ”
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“ A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. ”
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“ The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God. ”
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“ We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true. ”
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“ A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born. ”
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“ A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born. ”
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“ The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. ”
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“ The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one. ”
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“ Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. ”
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“ The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. ”
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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 the peril of being judged not to have lived. ”
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“ Share the passion and action of your time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. ”
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“ Share the passion and action of your time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. ”
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“ On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. ”
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“ I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self… ”
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“ Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. ”
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“ I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. ”
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“ Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. ”
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“ Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. ”
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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 Jr.- Copy
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“ I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self… ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
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“ I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
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“ The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. ”
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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. ”
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“ The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. ”
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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. ”
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“ Beware how you take away hope from any human being. ”
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