Cases Quotes
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On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
Thomas More
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There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
Demosthenes
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In the case of some women, orgasms take quite a bit of time. Before signing on with such a partner, make sure you are willing to lay aside, say, the month of June, with sandwiches having to be brought in.
Bruce Jay Friedman
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A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.
John Barrymore
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Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.
Mike Farrell
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Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.
Virginia Woolf
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In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.
Weegee
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Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
Kevin Spacey
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There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings