Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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I don't like allegories.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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Los Angeles is a really strange place. I grew up there like a normal kid, but it was not until I experienced other parts of the world that I realized how really and truly bizarre to the core it is - inside the homes of the powerful and damaged.
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
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Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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'Mandie and the Secret Tunnel' - the book and now the movie - pits a very young woman against forces she cannot control and events she cannot possibly know about. She's in way over her head, and you're pulling for her from the opening scene.
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Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
