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"The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it."
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"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."
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"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."
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"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."
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"The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false."
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"There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games."
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"Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us."
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"Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs."
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"I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh."
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"Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity."
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"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."
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"I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell."
Friendship
"It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this."I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself."Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.""The board-schools.""Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future."
Future
"Before we begin to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most of it, and to separate the essential from the accidental."
Knowledge
"As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after."
Writing
"Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it."
Responsibility
"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix."
Intelligence
"How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!"
Nature
"He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone."
Courage
"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."
Books
"It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it."
Inspirational
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