This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.Oliver Wendell Holmes
I was just going to say, when I was interrupted, that one of the many ways of classifying minds is under the heads of arithmetical and algebraical intellects. All economical and practical wisdom is an extension of the following arithmetical formula 2 2 4. Every philosophical proposition has the more general character of the expression a b c. We are mere operatives, empirics, and egotists until we learn to think in letters instead of figures.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
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