Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
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Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.
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Your character is the harvest of your habits.
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I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.
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By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.
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Just a good shot right on the right spot in the rib cage.
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When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.
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The part that I really love is musical, but also part of it is cultural. That’s just a fact. The culture that usually surrounds me, I’ve always found it very vain, narcissistic, and immature. There’s just nothing rebellious, as far as I’m concerned, about a leather jacket.
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Gonzales incident happened last September 21. The announcement is September 28. This is not rush. In fact it was studied by the legal.
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...the place I was bound for on my latest pilgrimage was filled with living, first-hand memories of all the enchanted years that lie between two and eighteen. How enchanted those years are is made more and more clear to me the older I grow. There has been nothing in the least like them since; and though I have forgotten most of what happened six months ago, every incident, almost every day of those wonderful long years is perfectly distinct in my memory.
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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
