"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it."

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Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.114, Reprint Services Corporation

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#Wise Quotes #Men Quotes #Way Quotes

“This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.”
“There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force”

Source : "John Keegan: Soldiers and Pacifists Share the Same Qualities" by Russ Wellen, fpif.org. February 13, 2013.
“And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.”
“In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.”
“What do you think, I was born at 60?”
“Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.”
“I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens. The sense that we have brought to birth Out of the cold and heavy soil, The blessed fruits and flowers of earth Is large reward for our toil.”

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