The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEAt the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
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When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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It is more than possible; it is probable.
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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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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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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The game is afoot.
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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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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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