Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.
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The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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It's great to be able to do shows like 'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door,' which I think is entirely too long of a title.
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Paris somehow lends itself to conceptual new ideas. I don't know why it is. There is a certain magic to that city.
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P. 27.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.
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I've had 72 absolutely flaming years. It (the illness) doesn't bother me at all, because, you know, love, when you've lived like I have, you've done it all. I put all my effort into living; any dope can drop dead. I'm in the hospital now, and I guess I'll kick the bucket here. Every beetle does it, every bird, everybody. You come into the world and then you go.
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The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
