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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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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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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned. ↗

— John Holt

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