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Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look… — Arthur Conan Doyle
....Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any… — Deanna Raybourn
One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe… — Stephen King
Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others… — Alan Lightman
It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldnâ€™t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldnâ€™t we have committed… — Graham Greene
Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it… — John Steinbeck
When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this… — Malcolm X
Thatâ€™s not the only reason Iâ€™m stayinâ€™, chica. I canâ€™t leave you any more than I could walk out that door right now while my… — Simone Elkeles
Genuine love is between two people who know they are already complete. Genuine love is based on a new paradigm in which both partners are… — Gay Hendricks
Weâ€™re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day… — Steven Pressfield
I want to know what it is, this 'sin' they say I've committed. — Jun Mochizuki
I donâ€™t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. Itâ€™s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves… — Deb Caletti
There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of… — George MacDonald
My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and… — Ghassan Kanafani
There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned,… — Ilona Andrews
Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is committed by a… — Dave Eggers
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe… — Noam Chomsky
A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation. — Pico Iyer
I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to… — Anais Nin
Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting… — Gary L. Francione

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