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• George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.

  Larry Holmes

  Names, People, Want

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• If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Knowledge, Drs, May

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• The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free trade in ideas." To that end, the Constitution protects more than just a man's freedom to say or write or publish what he wants. It secures as well the liberty of each man to decide for himself what he will read and to what he will listen. The Constitution guarantees, in short, a society of free choice.

  Potter Stewart

  Writing, Men, Expression

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• No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Natural Talent, Done

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.32, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister, Koch and Keen as charlatans...Napoleon said that war is too important to be left to the generals. We go on the assumption in the Senate that foreign relations are too important to be left to the diplomats...this question (on a novel cancer cure) is too important to leave purely to doctors.

  Paul Douglas

  War, Cancer, Dark

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• The next four years, though, you still have to abide by the oversight process that is there to prevent this kind of bizarre sort of cult-like atmosphere that falls along. I mean, I accept that kind of veil of secrecy around Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, but I don't accept that around our government.

  Jon Stewart

  Fall, Mean, Years

  "Bill Moyers talks with Jon Stewart". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• It is all in the way of professional experience.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Way, Professional Experience

  "The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels".

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• Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Fate, Steps, Dramatic

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.711, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. "Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.

  Laurie R. King

  Dark, Giving, Curiosity

  Laurie R. King (2010). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice”, p.151, Allison & Busby

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• My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Giving, Mind, Exaltation

  Sherlock Holmes, responding to Doctor Watson's remonstrations about his cocaine use, in The Sign of Four (1890). So, cryptology replaces drug abuse!

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• A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, May, Realizing

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.639, Ageless Reads

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• I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Hands, Giving, Reassuring

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• So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Two, Old Friends, Wish

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.806, Delphi Classics

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• As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Rocks, Water, Gazing

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.445, Wordsworth Editions

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• "I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding."

  Anthony Horowitz

  Thinking, Looks, Reputation

  "The House of Silk". Book by Anthony Horowitz, November 1, 2011.

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• I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Mean, Weekend, Criminals

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• It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Mistake, Science

  Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 3

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• You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not met his best friend, a friend that no one would have put him with, this solid, dependable, brave, big-hearted war hero. I think people fall in love, not with Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson, but with their friendship. I think it is the most famous friendship in fiction, without a doubt.

  Steven Moffat

  Friendship, Falling In Love, War

  "The Ax Interview: Showrunners Steven Moffat And Mark Gatiss On ‘Sherlock’ And ‘Doctor Who’". Interview with Abbie Bernstein, www.assignmentx.com. November 12, 2010.

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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 de coeur."

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Mean, Sarcasm

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.195, Race Point Publishing

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• A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.

  Victor Kiam

  Inspirational, Negotiation, Should

  Victor Kiam (1987). “Going for it!: how to succeed as an entrepreneur”

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• The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Hipster, Crazy

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Silly, Adventure, Noble

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The adventure of the noble bachelor (low cost). Limited edition”, p.5, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• [Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Data, Temptation, Form

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.852, Wordsworth Editions

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• The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Math, Science, Able

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.93, Penguin

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• Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women.

  Riane Eisler

  Our World, Hunger And Poverty, People

  Riane Eisler (2008). “The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics”, p.124, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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