Oliver Wendell Holmes
Journal Entry: Mon Mar 1, 2004, 12:05 PM
This long dead man's words, even in the boring education document that I read them from, helped me solidify all emanings and make all associations. I wanted to share these two passages with you so that you might, perhaps take your own meanings from them. Although he was a Supreme Court Justice his opinions have little to nothing to do with actual law. They are philosphy, and poetry, and magic in grammatical form. Instead of magic potions or healing drams Wendell Holmes uses salves of common sense. And he is the only man in politics, so far, in all my studies, that I actually agree with in all respects of the word.
"It is an experiment as all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge...that we loathe to believe to be fraught with death." - Abrams v. U.S. 1919
"Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief and if believed is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it, or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement in the narrower sense is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result. Eloqunce may set fire to reason." - Giltow v. New York 1925
Devious Comments
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"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
-Hunter S. Thompson
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I see you standing by the sea
The waves you made will always be
A kiss goodbye before you leave
G.L.O.R.I.A
Is love my friend
- RHCP
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I trust fate.
I even beleive in love.
But
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"the fastest way to a man's heart is 6 inches of metal between his ribs." LKH
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"The only thing that matters is just following your heart, and eventually you'll finally get it right." -The Ataris
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"Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life" -Shakespeare
when i get back to my room ill type up a piece about war that i fell in love with as a little girl, so much so that i forced myself to remember all twenty five or so verses of it. i refound it a little while ago. But your style reminds me of that. I apologize or so much for the random explosion of stupid comments. But the keyboard just kept sending with every keystroke instead of typing the letters i hit.
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I see you standing by the sea
The waves you made will always be
A kiss goodbye before you leave
G.L.O.R.I.A
Is love my friend
- RHCP
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I trust fate.
I even beleive in love.
But
W
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I see you standing by the sea
The waves you made will always be
A kiss goodbye before you leave
G.L.O.R.I.A
Is love my friend
- RHCP
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I trust fate.
I even beleive in love.
But
W
--
I see you standing by the sea
The waves you made will always be
A kiss goodbye before you leave
G.L.O.R.I.A
Is love my friend
- RHCP
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I trust fate.
I even beleive in love.
But
W
--
I see you standing by the sea
The waves you made will always be
A kiss goodbye before you leave
G.L.O.R.I.A
Is love my friend
- RHCP
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I trust fate.
I even beleive in love.
But
--
"Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life" -Shakespeare
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--
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I see you standing by the sea
The waves you made will always be
A kiss goodbye before you leave
G.L.O.R.I.A
Is love my friend
- RHCP
-------------------------------------------------------------------
I trust fate.
I even beleive in love.
But
--
I see you standing by the sea
The waves you made will always be
A kiss goodbye before you leave
G.L.O.R.I.A
Is love my friend
- RHCP
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I trust fate.
I even beleive in love.
But
~Michelle~
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//for we are many//
Pity that all things we do have already been done once before.
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//for we are many//
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"The only thing that matters is just following your heart, and eventually you'll finally get it right." -The Ataris
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