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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#knocks #other #out #real #somebody

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#dozen #finds #fish #full #memory

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#dimensions #goes #idea #man #mind

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#all day #break #bubble #day #evening

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#certainty #certitude #cocksure #many #test

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#before #chuckle #eighty #longer #make

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back. ↗

— John Holt

#attention #back #before #bring #child

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#clubs #driveway #golf #got #him

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#football #had #played #quarterback #tiger

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#artists #detest #i #other #otherwise