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Science is the topography of i...

Science is the topography of ignorance. From a few elevated points we triangulate vast spaces, inclosing infinite unknown details. We cast the lead, and draw up a little sand from abysses we may never reach with our dredges.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

As for the excellent little wr...

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Young men know the rules, but ...

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Pretty much all law consists i...

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

We are all tattooed in our cra...

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

For him in vain the envious se...

For him in vain the envious seasons roll
Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Certainty generally is illusio...

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

The great end of being is to h...

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

We must think things not words...

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Insanity is often the logic of...

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

It is better for all the world...

It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Even a dog knows the differenc...

Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

It takes me several days, afte...

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference 'the president' refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

To us who remain behind is lef...

To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Certitude leads to violence. T...

Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the wor

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Why should you row a boat race...

Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

The man of action has the pres...

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

As we grow older we think more...

As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Research and writing are lonel...

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

If you can eat sawdust without...

If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....