Living Quotes

• "People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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• "People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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• "People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?"
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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• "Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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• "Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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• "Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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• "Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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• "It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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• "In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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• "If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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• "I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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• "Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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• "Carve every word before you let it fall."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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• "A new untruth is better than an old truth."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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• "A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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• "A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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