Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.
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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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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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A lot of liberals think all the Trump voters are a part of the alt right, neo Nazi camp, which is not true. That's a tiny, tiny slice.
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Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
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I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.
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There should be a pathway to citizenship - not a special pathway and not no pathway.
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
