When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEMy mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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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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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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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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How 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 stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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