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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quotes about life

American Judge March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935

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Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is... Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quote: "I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures..."
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quote: "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quote: "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quote: "Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether..."
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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