Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
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Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
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The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.
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The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.
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The thing I want to emphasize is this: We haven't done one thing that anybody else can't do. We have certain rules in the league. Here's the cap, here's the numbers, here's what you can spend. So everybody in the league can do what we're doing. It's just that many choose not to.
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There's no rule that everyone has to change.
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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
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I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
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A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
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Jesus wants men who will rule well.
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Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
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The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.
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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
