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To live is to function. That is all there is in living.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935), Speech, May 30, 1884
Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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