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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: judge
Nationality: american
Birth: March 8, 1841 - March 6, 1935

Topics

Education Learning Live Facts How

If you eliminate the junk food, you don't really run the risk of gaining weight if you've got a good workout routine.

Good Food You Routine Run Risk

It's a very working-class thing, to get where you want and then not feel worthy.

Feel You Want Worthy Where Get

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

Relationship Year You Jump Want Get

The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.

Important Investment Oil Castles

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

John Stuart Mill

Community I Am Right Force Aware Am

I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.

Stokely Carmichael

Best Say Regrets Did Major Could

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Communication Time Space Flying Go

If you are going to talk negative about a place, you're almost throwing yourself out to begin with because golf is a mental game.

Yourself Game Negative Golf You Out

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

People Think Ridiculous See Out

Telomeres are the ends of our chromosomes that control how long we live. As telomeres become shorter, then cells age and die more quickly. In simple terms, as your telomeres get shorter, your life gets shorter.

Life Live Age Simple Control Die

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

More Old One Thing Thing Certain

I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

Live Kitchen Treat Wish Place Need

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