"While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle,……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician."
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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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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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
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He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of…
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The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought…
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My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it…
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One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth…
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Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in…
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