Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
Fernando Pessoa
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Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.
Frances Bean Cobain
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Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.
Kin Hubbard
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O my child, who wronged you first, and beganFirst the dance of death that you dance so well?Soul for soul: and I think the soul of a manShall answer for yours in hell.
Arthur Symons
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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey
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If you try to imagine, as nearly as you can, what an amount of misery, pain and suffering of every kind the sun shines upon in its course, you will admit that it would be much better if, on the earth as little as on the moon, the sun were able to call forth the phenomena of life; and if, here as there, the surface were still in a crystalline state.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Wit is cultured insolence.
Aristotle
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You're only as good as your last book.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Knowledge does not grow like a tree where you dig a hole, plant your feet, cover them with dirt, and pour water on them daily. Knowledge grows with time, work, and dedicated effort. It cannot come by any other means.
Ed Parker
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The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.
Albert Einstein
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Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.
Van Jones
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Arthur Conan Doyle