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Oliver Holmes, Jr.

"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."

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"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."

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"Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously."

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"Some persons can't accept the truth, due to their inability to let go of their own perceptions."

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"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."

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"Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do."

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"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."

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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

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"I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss."

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"Wisdom is the ultimate blooms of a tree we call life."

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"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."
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"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
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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 greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God."
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"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."
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"The reward of the general is not a bigger tent but command."
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"You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all."
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"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."
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"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."
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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived."
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