"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."

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Source : The Common Law Lecture 1 (1881).

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#Law Quotes #Logic Quotes

“Goals are only important if they win games”
“The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring: these are a few of the paradoxes we must hold as human beings. If we refuse to hold them in the hopes of living without doubt, despair, and pain, we also find ourselves living without faith, hope, and love.”
“Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it.”
“It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.”

Source : "Gustavo Dudamel: 'I'm not the messiah" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2010.
“On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.”
“It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.”
“Your biggest dream? - Nora Grey Kiss you. - Patch Cipriano”
“If you do not help a man with his troubles, it is equivalent to bringing troubles to him.”

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