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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLETo let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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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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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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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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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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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 wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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