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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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Age: 93 †
Born: 1841
Born: March 8
Died: 1935
Died: March 6
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To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.
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Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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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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I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.
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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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To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.
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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
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Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
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Systems die instincts remain.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.
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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
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