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• Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.

  Emilio Estevez

  Travel, Adventure, Night

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• Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

  Roger Ebert

  Raises Questions, Fiction, Answers

  "Prometheus" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. June 6, 2012.

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• For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Imagination, Effort, Literature

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.232, Ageless Reads

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• Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Historical, Doubt

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.654, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Hype, Deception

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891).

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• Some things never change and the intriguing things you fall in love with will become the things you don't like.

  Courteney Cox

  Falling In Love, Fall, Never Change

  "Courteney Cox interview exclusive: On her marriage break-up and Jennifer Aniston's support". www.mirror.co.uk. November 13, 2010.

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• For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

  Cyril Connolly

  Freedom, Liberty, Action

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• I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

  Bjorn Borg

  Character, Play, Political

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• I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist, whereas film was not.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Art, New York, Exercise

  "'I like to be strong'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2002.

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• Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.

  Chris Robinson

  Beautiful, Interesting, Together

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me.

  Theo Rossi

  Cowboy, Fascination, Modern

  "Theo Rossi Talks Sons of Anarchy: Brick Season 4" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. October 04, 2011.

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• There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Would Be, World, Dull

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Three Gables" (1926).

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• Every man and every woman is a star.

  Aleister Crowley

  Stars, Men, Thelema

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 3. No. 1.”, Lulu.com

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• Love is the law, love under will.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love Is, Law, Thelema

  Aleister Crowley (2016). “The Book of the Law”, p.6, Public Lex

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• Babies are made through an act that you will eventually find intriguing but for right now will just sort of horrify you, and also sometimes people do stuff that involves baby-making parts that does not actually involve making babies, like for instance kiss each other in places that are not on the face.

  John Green

  Baby, Real, Kissing

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.14, Penguin

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• For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

  Aleister Crowley

  Perfect, Lust, Purpose

  Aleister Crowley (2016). “The Book of the Law”, p.5, Public Lex

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• The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wisdom, Freedom, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.186, Library of Alexandria

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• Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

  Edward Abbey

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

  Tennessee Williams

  Life, Inspiring, Memories

  Tennessee Williams (1964). “The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore”, p.36, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

  Jesse Ventura

  Imagination

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• It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

  Vikram Seth

  Writing, Thinking, Trivia

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• I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, Medicine

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• I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Life, Relationship

  You're a Winner, Charlie Brown (1960)

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• When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

  Arsene Wenger

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

  "Mourinho reveals Wenger dossier". news.bbc.co.uk. November 2, 2005.

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• In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

  Marc Andreessen

  Business, Entrepreneurship, Absolutely Nothing

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