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"We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail we must and not drift nor lie at anchor." -
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Top 5 quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."
"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power."
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
Top 5 quotes from Motivation & Goals
"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'"
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
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