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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Test Certainty Things Been Many

Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.

John Buchanan Robinson

Money Simple Price Reason Buy May

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.

Jeffrey Donovan

Life Father Parents My Life Meet Up

If other people want to talk about my future I can't control that.

Future People Control Want Talk

I love pop music. Who doesn't?

Love Music Pop Who Pop Music I Love

People don't want to be told what type of insurance they have to have.

People Insurance Want Type

The issue is not to ask your customers what they want today, but to try to imagine what the customer is going to want in a world where, for instance, their cellphone is in their glasses.

Today Glasses World Customer Want

Being transgender isn't a medical transition. It's a process of learning to love yourself for who you are.

Love Learning Yourself Medical You

I think what we all have to do is make this big leap towards renewables. And it has to be a solution where you're actually building the answer; and it has to be built faster than the natural gas industry can build their answer.

Building Think Solution You Build

To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of our soul, not only in our actions but, more importantly, in our thoughts and in our hearts.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Good Integrity Soul Me Thoughts

I got heckled by a woman, and my riposte fixed upon her unfortunate hair texture, only for her to remove her wig and reveal to the room the horrors of chemotherapy.

Dominic Holland

Woman Hair Wig Room Texture Reveal

Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

Opportunity Today Day Job Start You

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

William S. Burroughs

People Some People Old Always Like

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