"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.“
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"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms."
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"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future."
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"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
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"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
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"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions."
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"Strong women only marry weak men."
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