Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
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I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
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We celebrate those comebacks because they inspire us to believe that seemingly impossible things really are possible.
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You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
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I try to photobomb as much as possible.
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It is fear that drives the hippies to seek the warmth, the protection, the safety of a herd. When they speak of merging themselves into a 'greater whole,' it is their fear that they hope to drown in the undemanding waves of unfastidious human bodies - and what they hope to fish out of that pool is the momentary illusion of an unearned personal significance.
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When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
