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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 29, 1809 - October 7, 1894

Topics

Truth Light After Rarely Sought

The hardest problems of all in law enforcement are those involving a conflict of law and local customs. History has recorded many occasions when the moral sense of a nation produced judicial decisions, such as the 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which required difficult local adjustments.

Education History Decision Law Moral

It is amazing how quickly a true talent can announce itself. In the case of Myla Goldberg, it is not even a matter of pages, but of sentences.

Talent Amazing True Matter Even How

They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country.

John Ratzenberger

Energy You Country Need Asking Your

If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.

Song Three Accept Company Theme Up

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

Stephanie Beacham

Talking Enjoy Shyness About

'Chandelier' took, like, four minutes to write the chords, then, like, 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals.

Write Cut Like Four Lyrics Minutes

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

Failure I Am Ready Reason Everything

In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer day in the Midwest: an unsettling calm before a ferocious storm over Vietnam, which was not yet an American war.

Time Day Storm War Calm Political

I always try to see my weakness, work on it, to be better as a person and a player, everything.

Work Weakness Better Person Try See

Even after they fired me, called me a bigot and publicly advised me to only share my thoughts with a psychiatrist, I did not call for defunding NPR. I am a journalist, and NPR is an important platform for journalism.

I Am Me Thoughts Journalism Share

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

Bradley Whitford

Success Opportunity Believe Attention

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Home Devil Temptation Profit Labor

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