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Oliver Holmes, Jr.

"On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it."

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"On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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"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."
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"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."
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"Systems die instincts remain."
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