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.Arthur Conan Doyle
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Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
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.
Ban Ki-moon -
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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.
Adam Cohen -
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
Wally Amos
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
Karin Slaughter -
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers -
I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
Octavia Spencer -
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.
Ida B. Wells -
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
Karin Slaughter -
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.
Maimonides
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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.
Calvin Klein -
Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.
Sally Yates -
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.
Rand Paul -
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.
Vincent Bugliosi -
White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
Adam McKay -
I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.
Laura Marling
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Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.
William Butler Yeats -
I sighed and went back to my book, in which Morgoth nicked the eponymous jewels and had away with them back to Angbad. Sorry mate, I thought, not my jurisdiction. Did you have them insured? Whereupon FĂ«anor gets a crime number and a leaflet about being on guard against theft and the wiles of the personification of evil.
Ben Aaronovitch -
Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.
Jose Rizal -
Was ever poet so trusted before?
Samuel Johnson -
First, I used some of my own experiences and observations from attending a public high school. Secondly, I joined in some Internet chat rooms for gays and lesbians.
Ellen Muth -
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
Arthur Conan Doyle