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- A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never reurn to it's original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, The autocrat of the breakfast-table
- The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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