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Oliver Holmes, Jr.

"We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true."

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"We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true."

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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

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"...It expands; it only destroys because it broadens; even so, thought only destroys because it broadens. A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. "My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe."

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