Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Long Quotes, Effort Quotes

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

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FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Long Quotes , Baptism Quotes

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

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Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

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He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Long Quotes , Peculiar Quotes

No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.

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Tags : Alan Greenspan Quotes , Long Quotes , Risk Quotes

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Opposites Quotes , Long Quotes

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Long Quotes , Decision Quotes

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

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In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Long Quotes , Mountain Quotes

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Long Quotes

Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Time Quotes , Long Quotes

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Long Quotes , Enlightenment Quotes

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Acceptance Quotes , Long Quotes

Nature doesn't make long speeches.

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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Long Quotes , Forget Quotes

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

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As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.

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English can be tricky because there are so many false cognates, but sometimes, as long the idea conveyed is not wrong, these false cognates can themselves offer synonyms or lead to a better alternative word or phrase in translation.

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Tags : Adam Morris Quotes , Long Quotes , Sometimes Quotes

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Long Quotes , Desire Quotes