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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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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I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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A Negro girl could never be purely innocent. The vengeful Race Fairy always lurked nearby; your parents' best hope was that the fairy would show up at someone else's feast and punish their child. Parents had to protect themselves, too, and protect you from knowing how much danger you all were in.
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I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
