Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.
Quotes to Explore
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The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.
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Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.
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I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.
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After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.
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I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.
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I like what we've got at quarterback. I like our depth there. You know, we'll see.
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Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?
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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
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The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
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Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
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Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.
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Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
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I believe in love that's fun, that is caring, giving, and that is honest.
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When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about...is suffering, affliction.
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There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.
