Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.Oliver Wendell Holmes
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
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The flowering moments of the mind Drop half their petals in our speech.
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There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.
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It is something to make two blades of grass grow where only one was growing, it is much more to have been the occasion of the planting of an oak which shall defy twenty scores of winters, or of an elm which shall canopy with its green cloud of foliage half as many generations of mortal immortalities.
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
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