Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
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But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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I love working with women.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
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There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.
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I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
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Eating well, being around the table with the family or friends or relatives - it doesn't get any better.
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I suppose - in the last resort - you trust life - or you don't. Well - I don't. There's something malicious . . . corrupt . . . cruel . . . at the heart of it. We don't belong. We're a mistake.
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I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
