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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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In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
— Henry Adams
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It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature.…
— Louis Agassiz
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The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe…
— Unknown Author
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The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.
— Fernando Pessoa
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This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the…
— Gilbert N. Lewis
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Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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