Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said this quote

“ Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister. ”

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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.

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A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Education

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.

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We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.

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