"Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example."
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383 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of…
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Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a…
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I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled…
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Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and…
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Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice…
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking…
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And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the…
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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
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Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that…
— George Santayana
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature,…
— Peter Davenport
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There exists a mountain of circumstantial evidence that consciousness survives bodily death. This is the kind of evidence that would…
— Unknown Author
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As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I…
— George Washington
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We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from…
— Unknown Author
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them…
— Cai Guo-Qiang
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All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor…
— Joshua Ferris
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The evidence for indicting immunisations for SIDS is circumstantial, but compelling. However, the keepers of the keys to medical-research funds…
— Frederick Douglass
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The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and…
— Criss Jami
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I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work…
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