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Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Age: 71 †
Born: 1859
Born: May 22
Died: 1930
Died: July 7
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
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The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
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Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?
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