Man's mind, once stretched by an idea, never regains its original shape.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
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
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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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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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We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable, we, or many of us at least, also believed that the conflict was inevitable, and that slavery had lasted long enough. But we equally believed that those who stood against us held just as sacred conviction that were the opposite of ours, and we respected them as every men with a heart must respect those who give all for their belief.
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We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
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