A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court

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Sonu ,T from Bangalore MAY 31, 2010
How true, just the memories remain.

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