"Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed."
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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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His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester…
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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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"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means…
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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have…
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We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
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Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which…
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I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union…
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The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment…
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We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like…
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I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.
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Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative…
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We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that…
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful,…
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I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in…
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Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to…
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We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.
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