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- I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Speech in Detroit, June 23, 1963
- Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
- Henry James (1843 - 1916), "Ambassadors", 1903
- Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
- How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890
- The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892
- You see, but you do not observe.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) A Scandal in Bohemia, 1892
- It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892
- Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
- The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Flying Inn (1914)
- We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
- Jimmy Carter (1924 - ), Spech in March 1976
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