Authors - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Quote 6779by Anonymous on 07/10/2011
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
Quote 6991by Anonymous on 15/10/2011
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
Quote 7360by Anonymous on 05/11/2011
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
Quote 12096by Anonymous on 28/02/2013
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.