Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.
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I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.
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Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.
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Let's just say I haven't been keeping up the Gary Barlow persona; I've let loose.
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Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
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Gluttony, do not eat thy neighbor's wife's popcorn.
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Man, who don't like spaghetti?
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In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead at the top.
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Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
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But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!
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The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining insight as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid.
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It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.
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I do not serve your personal issues, Morevna. I serve the People, and the People will have crimes against their body answered. You fought at Leningrad. So did I. Why should he be spared?' 'Somebody ought to be.
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Instead of spending the time and the money and the manpower on the front end, when children first transgress - and when they can be helped and guided and set straight - we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.
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I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.
