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“Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.”

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Kurt Vonnegut was an American writer known for his unique humor and profound satire. His works often explore themes of war, humanity, society, and politics. His most famous works include 'Slaughterhouse-Five' and 'Cat's Cradle'. His writing style has been widely appreciated by readers and has had a profound impact on literature. more

“Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it 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 is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.”

Ifs Ideas Belief Energy Differences Justice Results Opinion Movement Expression Birth Offers Enthusiasm Speakers Incitement

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.”

Men Believe May Truth Fighting Justice Power Theory Truth Is Tests Constitution Competition Rate Accepted Upset Freedom Of Speech

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.”

Facts Seems Law Voice Decision Common Sky Forgotten Sovereign Sovereignty Brooding Common Law

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.”

Cost Competition

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“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.”

Men Made Life Is Names Effort Return Conflict Eternal Every Man

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.”

Views Truth Is Tests Majority Favour

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.”

Thinking Needs Littles Ambition

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., Now First Collected: Miscellaneous works

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., Now First Collected: Miscellaneous works

“Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.”

Men Every Man Estates Borrowing

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch

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