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Results from Cole's Quotables:

It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935), Jr.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)

Results from Poor Man's College:

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)

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