Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

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• The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.

  

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• As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.

  

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• I want to pursue a career in film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
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• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

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• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

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• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
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• I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
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• Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

  

  Zhuangzi
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• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  

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• One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

  

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• I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.

  

  Sam Graves
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• Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.

  

  Barry Sanders
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• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

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• When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
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• I feel like some of my baby fat is going away, and that's not just physically, it's psychologically. I think that your body is in tune with your mind and your spirituality and your heart. If things are going better, I just think you look better.

  

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• I'm quite happy with the way my life is.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
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• There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
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• Boston was incredible. I had some of the best experiences of my life there at Berklee because I met a bunch of other people who were at the exact same stage in life and interest as me. There were American and international students all wrapped up in the Berklee environment, where you basically did nothing but music 24/7.

  

  Anat Cohen
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• People vary. You change your style, your hair, and the way you dress. Talking differently will be a part of that.

  

  Deborah Tannen
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• Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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