Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.
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Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy, I don't disparage envy but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
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The law, so far as it depends on learning, is indeed, as it has been called, the government of the living by the dead. To a very considerable extent no doubt it is inevitable that the living should be so governed. The past gives us our vocabulary and fixes the limits of our imagination; we cannot get away from it. There is, too, a peculiar logical pleasure in making manifest the continuity between what we are doing and what has been done before. But the present has a right to govern itself so far as it can; and it ought always to be remembered that historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity.
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The elaborate argument against the constitutionality of the Act if interpreted as we read it, in accordance with its obvious meaning does not need an elaborate answer.
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Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.
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The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree. When a nation is at war many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right.
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Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sum, but you have to make the romance, and it will come to the question how much fire you have in your belly.
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Get down, you fool!
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