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Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body,…
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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of…
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A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the…
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The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with…
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Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
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But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes…
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When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing…
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There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
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Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and…
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I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out,…
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I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a…
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If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance
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In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for…
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After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."
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When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing…
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Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say)…
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We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one…
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The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum…
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After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether…
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I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and…
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Son asks his father: Dad, how many kinds of boobies are there? Father answers: Well son, there's three kinds of breasts. In…
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