Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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I love being a grandmother. That feeling you have for your own child - you don't ever think it will be replicated, and I did wonder if I would have to 'pretend' with my grandchildren. But my heart was taken on day one.
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My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
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My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.
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I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.
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It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.
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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.
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I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
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Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
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All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
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Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.
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My grandmother used to get her shoes made in Paris in the '30s, and they would be shipped to her in Singapore.
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Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.
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A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
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Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
