To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEAt 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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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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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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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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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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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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A dog reflects the family life.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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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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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
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The game is afoot.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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