We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEJealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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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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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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The game is afoot.
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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