A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
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There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors, who have no aim beyond their facts, are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason, generalize, using the labors of fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict their best illumination comes from above, through the skylight.
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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.
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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
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