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Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an…
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out…
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second…
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they…
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Total war is the most humane in the long run.
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,…
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference…
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert…
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There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.
— Margaret Atwood
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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate…
— Frederick Buechner
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A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.
— Victor Kiam
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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson…
— A. A. Gill
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For me, there are two different things that make Sherlock Sherlock. One is, you know, within the books: obviously he's a genius…
— Jonny Lee Miller
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I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only…
— Steve Coogan
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The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human…
— Rupert Everett
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The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he…
— Rupert Everett
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I don't want to come over all po-faced, because ultimately Sherlock is just entertainment, but if I can, I want to try…
— Louise Brealey
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The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective,…
— Joe Navarro
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Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
— Rex Stout
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