Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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My whole thing is there is nobody else like you in this whole world.
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We've got to start worrying about America. And if we don't start dealing with the debt we have and the deficit spending we have in Washington, politics doesn't matter, because the American people do realize that they have to balance their budgets.
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I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
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The Gay Science, section 108.
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There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.
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Our debts don't leave us much in terms of choices. We can choose to pay now or try to pay later. But the longer we wait the steeper the bill.
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Even a good marriage leaves people with longings for certain things their marriage will never be. So, do they accept that, make compromises, and say, "You can't have everything in life," which is what we always did? Or do they say, "I deserve more. I want to experience that thing and, you know, I have fifty more years to live than I used to." It's not necessarily that we have more desires today, but we do feel more entitled to pursue them. We live in this "right to happiness" culture, and yes, we do live half a century longer than we used to.
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If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.
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I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.
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If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.
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If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.
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On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.
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All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.
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But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
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I would hope that people would feel that they achieved a greater opportunity in life living here in California than they had prior to when we came in. That they had a better opportunity of getting better education.That they had a better opportunity of getting a job once they had an education or training. And that overall, that their quality of life had improved.
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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.
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It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered. In truth, Messrs Euler and Lagrange, who have not disdained this kind of research, have proved most of these theorems, and have even substituted extensive theories for the isolated propositions of Fermat. But there are several proofs which have resisted their efforts.
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I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions.
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Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.
