Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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Whenever we are going through adversity, we should be able to overcome it, that's what kind of team we should be moving forward.
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The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.
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Bold love is courageously setting aside our personal agenda to move humbly into the world of others with their well-being in view, willing to risk further pain in our souls, in order to be an aroma of life to some and an aroma of death to others.
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I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expression is important to them as scientists; the best research is wasted when it is extremely difficult to discover what it is all about ... It is even more important when scientists are called upon to play their part in the world of affairs, as is happening to an increasing extent.
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Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
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I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.
