Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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My hunger is always there.
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A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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Disney was, like, such an amazing experience always for me, such a huge part of my life.
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When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.
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Living your life is a long and doggy business. . . . And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some help you just take a break. The best do both at the same time.
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Our flight was super delayed from London. There was a minute where we though it was only going to cancel.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
