Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
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Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
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Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.
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No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
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We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians maintain, there would not have been, for instance, the Holocaust. This is an inherent self-contradiction. So if Christians insist on having a God, they can do so, but if they have any respect for logic they'll have to redefine who he is.
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White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.
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Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital. Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by diminished cultivation.
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The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.
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The frustration mainly comes from trying to understand what they really want. Also, you cannot understand how can such a large nation maintain its so-called stability by doing something very unlawful. I mean, how can they possibly manage to stabilize the whole social condition by not acting with justice and fairness.
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Tel Aviv is the most exciting place to eat in Israel.
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From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.
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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
