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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."

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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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"Instead of breaking or cherry-picking the rules, many just follow the inner rules, which have been instilled during their lifetime and have subtly permeated their thinking. They value rules, as it offers the ravishment of a securing, ceremonial rhythm in life and it prevents them from breaking free from their cocoon, all the more because freedom can be so scaring and exhausting. ['When forgetting the rules of the game']"

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"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
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"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so."
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"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
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"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."
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"I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it."
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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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"Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is."
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