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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chips #contrived #critics #her #invented

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals. ↗

— Lou Holtz

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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#coaching #eliminating #fired #get #mistakes

The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They try to break a record: 'how long I was there.' But if you look at the pedigree, who they fought, ain't nobody gonna give them credit for it because they fought a lot of people with no experience. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

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