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... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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