Dimensions Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

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While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

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Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

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If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

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It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The…

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Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

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As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify…

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On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar,…

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Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

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A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

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Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

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Systems die; instincts remain.

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There are places that are very draining. There are places where there is another dimensional crossover but to a dimension that is not powerful…

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When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday life.

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Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick…

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We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the…

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Money should not be in the hands of individuals; otherwise it will create this problem of being burdened with guilt. And money can make…

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Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.

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I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive…

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A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension…

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Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw…

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I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the…

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Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that…

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