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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."
"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."
"I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish."
"Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them."
"Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over."
"The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist."
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
Explore more quotes by Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."
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