Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes | Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives ...

"Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world."

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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

— Thomas Jefferson

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Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

— Ayn Rand

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