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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 a spinal…
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Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer…
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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 the Molesey…
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Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly…
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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 of anything…
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were…
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer…
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And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.…
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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 fair. I…
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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 an affaire…
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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my…
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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the…
— Henry Bolingbroke
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The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who are quick…
— Proclus
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know…
— Blaise Pascal
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The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp,…
— Aristotle
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We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles…
— David Mamet
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Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first…
— Aristotle
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Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet…
— George Washington
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Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social…
— James Madison
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Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature…
— Ernest Holmes
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The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
— Democritus
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