The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

 

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.


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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

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A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never reurn to it's original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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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.

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

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To live is to function. That is all there is in living. -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

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