Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
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There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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Borders are the worst invention ever made by politicians.
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To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but nothing's getting better.
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I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.
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To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel.
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The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.
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But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
