Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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With regard to North Korea, between myself and President Obama earlier, with regard to the so-called launch of satellite, the missile launch, we shared the view that it undermines the efforts of the various countries concerned to achieve the resolution through dialogue.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
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The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.
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It turns out, Newton is correct: Objects at rest tend to remain at rest, and twelve-year-old-boys are even more resistant to motion than regular matter.
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Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
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To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
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The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
