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" A new untruth is better than an old truth. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Old
Truth Is
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" Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. "
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" Beware how you take away hope from another human being. "
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" The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. "
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" A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; 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. "
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" Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government. "
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" Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason. "
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" A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. "
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" If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. "
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" The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law. "
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" The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. "
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" Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. "
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" The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. "
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" The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. "
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" To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. "
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" It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. "
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" People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail. "
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Talk
Changes
" Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force. "
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Two
Want
" Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. "
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Good
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" A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. "
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" Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. "
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" Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it. "
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" A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. "
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" The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one. "
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" The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. "
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" When in doubt, do it. "
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" Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. "
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" The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God. "
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" Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. "
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" 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. "
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