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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Age: 93 †
Born: 1841
Born: March 8
Died: 1935
Died: March 6
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General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.
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In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.
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In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.
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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
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There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
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Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.
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History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
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To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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To know is not less than to feel.
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For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.
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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
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The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.
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The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
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If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.
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My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.
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To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.
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Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.
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