Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
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One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.
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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
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High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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You must remind yourself: The #1 reason to merge your life with a man is that he makes you feel happier - not more anxious and depressed.
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A lot of my music is very roots-oriented, and that's country and soul. I've been in every roadhouse in the South, soaking in all of that... Nashville is like a second home to me, and I'm just gravitating toward the songs.
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There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
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The only acting I knew when I was a boy came from Lochgelly. With a double bill, people would live their lives in the cinema. You would even see babies being breastfed in the audience.
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Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. … Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.
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Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.
