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“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes · Art

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

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Have the courage to act instead of react.

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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

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