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#mysteries

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The two men sat silent for a little, and then Lord Peter said: "D'you like your job?" The detective considered the question, and replied: "Yes—yes, I do. I know it to be useful, and I am fitted to it. I do it quite well—not with inspiration, perhaps, but sufficiently well to take a pride in it. It is full of variety and it forces one to keep up to the mark and not get slack. And there's a future to it. Yes, I like it. Why?" "Oh, nothing," said Peter. "It's a hobby to me, you see. I took it up when the bottom of things was rather knocked out for me, because it was so damned exciting, and the worst of it is, I enjoy it—up to a point. If it was all on paper I'd enjoy every bit of it. I love the beginning of a job—when one doesn't know any of the people and it's just exciting and amusing. But if it comes to really running down a live person and getting him hanged, or even quodded, poor devil, there don't seem as if there was any excuse for me buttin' in, since I don't have to make my livin' by it. And I feel as if I oughtn't ever to find it amusin'. But I do.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#hobbies #justice-system #mysteries #vocation #inspirational

They died. Along with three other men who had joined our group. We were betrayed. The porter had told his girlfriend about the operation. They’d only just met each other. Jens shot her a week later.” Johannes aka ‘BB’ The Informer


Steen Langstrup


#scandinavian-mysteries #ww #men

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.


Robert Vaughn


#mysteries #philosophers #same #searched #theologians

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.


Philip Emeagwali


#focus #important #mysteries #nature #problems

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.


Mark Twain


#disappear #explained #mad #mysteries #remember

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.


Anthony Hecht


#being #children #early #early age #grown-ups

We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle's properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe.


Rolf-Dieter Heuer


#detailed #discovery #down #larger #light

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.


Dean Inge


#deepest #even #happy #human #human life

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.


Ben Okri


#acknowledged #cannot #coded #dislike #frontiers

Trains are beautiful. They take people to places they've never been, faster than they could ever go themselves. Everyone who works on trains knows they have personalities, they're like people. They have their own mysteries.


Sam Starbuck


#engineer #mysteries #the-dead-isle #trains #beauty






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