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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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As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must…
— Eric Alterman
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed…
— Nelson A. Miles
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The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.
— Thomas Huxley
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Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The…
— Milton Friedman
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More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.
— Robert Breault
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The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.
— Bill Gates
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There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
— Ambrose Bierce
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He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
— Douglas William Jerrold
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