People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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  1. A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~

  2. To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

  3. You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part...

  4. Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

  5. I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbour as one's self....

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