Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Grow, Inspiring, Motivation, Sprung, Teamwork, Transplanted

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

Experience, Inspirational, Mind, Old, Travel, Wise

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Freedom, Hate, Attachment, Principle

Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!

Imposing, Particular, People, Powerful, Proposition, Thinking

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

Insperational, Where You Are, Position, Success, Standing

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

Distinguishes, Dog, Kicked, Stumbled

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Charlotte Bronte

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Become the most passionate person you know. It'll be contagious.

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Conor Oberst

Each song [Desaparecidos] has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.

Broaden, Came, People, Song, Trying

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if you'll live forever, it becomes too easy to postpone the things you know that you must do.

Death, Denial, Forever, Know, People

Mark Z. Danielewski

I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote, I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of sum’thing has always been and always will be you.

Dreamt, Evening, Morning, Napped, Walks, Wrote