Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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With Christopher Guest films, we have a lot of say.

Jennifer Coolidge

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Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.

John Eldredge

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I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.

John McAfee

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I have covered Israeli hostage and M.I.A. cases for more than 15 years, including the covert ways in which Israel's powerful espionage agencies operate to bring soldiers home alive or dead. Over that time, the issue has come to dominate public discourse to a degree that no one could have predicted.

Ronen Bergman

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When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

Mary Frances Berry

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The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.

Loretta Lynch

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You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.

Chris Hemsworth

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A man walks on through life - with the external call ringing in his ears but with no response stirring in his heart, and then suddenly, without any warning, the Spirit taps him on the shoulder. What happens? He turns 'round. The word 'repentance' means 'turning 'round.' He repents and believes and is saved.

Peter Marshall

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I gotta tell you, Rickey Medlocke lived in some of the most magical years in this world's history. I lived in the '60s. I lived in the '70s, right into the '80s, and man, it was bad to the bone.

Rickey Medlocke

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In our family business, the Edelman children must earn their way - there were and will be no promises without performance and leadership. That may lead to some skinned knees, but it is certainly the best way to learn life lessons.

Richard Edelman

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The first time I went to the Emmys was amazing. I had someone make me a dress - like, made for me.

Retta

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Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.

Marianne Williamson

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