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.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man, but where he is made they greatly improve his appearance.
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In high school, when I played football I got no respect. I shared a locker with a mop.
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I love mysteries on television – the more psychologically complex the better.
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The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice...if they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.
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I have taken to living by my wits.
