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• Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)...
• In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
  -- J. W. Fulbrigh...
• The United States has entered an anti-intellectual phase in its history, perhaps most clearly seen in our virtually thought-free political life.
  -- David Baltimore...
• Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)...
• Ridicule is the best test of truth. -- Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)
• The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holme...
• So good it's better than itself.
• A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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• I always get the better when I argue alone. -- Oliver Goldsmith