Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.
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It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
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Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I'd be safer selling my guns than reserving them for 'Tombstone II.'
Walter Kirn
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A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.
Finley Peter Dunne
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Globally local commerce is a $12 to $14 trillion market. If we get 10 percent of that, we'll be very happy.
Andrew Mason
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We can all be prouder to be human beings, because that's what they were. They make up for a lot of liars, cheats, and terrorists among us.
Andy Rooney
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In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and if this has been done on one subject, it has doubtless been done on others. A good many women, I think, learned a wholesome distrust of press reports during the suffrage struggle.
Alice Stone Blackwell
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We let the momentum slide in the fourth quarter.
Phil Jackson
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There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.
William James
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Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.
Will Wright
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A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful.
Arsene Wenger
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As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.
William Stanley Jevons
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It's a wonderful way to have a role on a series - you're not tied down totally and completely to a schedule.
Lee Meriwether
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I watched the Lost series in the US and it's great.
Elijah Wood
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Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.
Claude Lanzmann
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I don't care about the money. I'm just interested in the perks. I'll do a series if I am picked up by a limo, work only until 4, and the show is shot in Hawaii.
Harry Morgan
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It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.
Arthur Conan Doyle