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Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Get close to grass and you’ll see a star. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. done in bullet pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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