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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."
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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."
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"I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious."
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"There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy."
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"Facts do not speak."
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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."
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"In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid."
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"If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing."
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"As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself."
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"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."
Man

"We can't command our love, but we can our actions."
Love

"You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable."
Writing

"From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other."
Possibility

"It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal."
Justice

"In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself."
Success

"I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution."
Mystery

"On general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes."
Crime

"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
Morality

"To a great mind, nothing is little."
Philosophy
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