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Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
- I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
- I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
- If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
- If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
- It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.
- It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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