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Oliver Wendell Holmes

"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."

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"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

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"Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for."

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"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."

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"To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie."

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"Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity."

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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

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"A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars."

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"I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally."

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"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."

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"I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody."

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"Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection."
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"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
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"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."
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"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
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"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
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"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
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"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it."
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