Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
J. Reuben Clark
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
Samantha Power
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
Harry Caray
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
Sam Graves
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
Patricia Sun
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I abhor hypocrisy.
Don Lemon
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There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful.
Jim Nussle
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What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our own machinery!
John Kendrick Bangs
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I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
Barry Eisler
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One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.
D. B. Weiss
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
