"There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them."

Society, Madness, Truth, Individual, Uniqueness

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"There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them."

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"Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death."

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"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."

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"Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people."

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"A country is poor not because they have no wealth but because they have no good ideas."

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"Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both."

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"It's strange how money seems to silence a neighborhood," I say quietly. "On my street, where no one has money, it's so loud. Sirens blaring, people shouting, car doors slamming, stereos thumping. There's always someone, somewhere, making noise."

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."

Art

"Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example."

Wit

"The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime."

Profession

"Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand."

Intelligence

"The country inspector's face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes' investigation. At first he had shown some disposition to assert his own position, but now he was overcome with admiration, and ready to follow without question wherever Holmes lead."

Respect

"There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition."

Crime

"I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety."

Confidence

"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."

Man

"He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?''No, I have not.''Well, well, such is fame!"

Success

"Well, Watson, what do you make of it?'Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.'How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.''I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me', said he."

Intelligence