"Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Light Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.”
“Much of the criticism of economic globalization has centered on factory labor abuses. But the majority of the world's poor are not employed in factories; they are self-employed - as peasant farmers, rural peddlers, urban hawkers, and small producers, usually involved in agriculture and small trade in the world's vast "informal" economy .”

Source : David Bornstein (2007). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition”, p.156, Oxford University Press
“No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.”
“As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'”
“My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.”

Source : RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.
“Free men do not forfeit their security, contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom. If so, then let him explain to us why we don't strike Sweden, for example.”
“Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.”

Source : Frederick Locker-Lampson (1874). “London Lyrics”, p.188
“God is glorified when His people find satisfaction in Him and in His provisions for them.”

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