If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEHow small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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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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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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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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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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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.
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