"It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

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“But the question is - are we deporting a couple hundred people for show or are we actually making a serious effort to remove everybody who's got a final order of removal? When I say enforcement theater, what I mean is a kind of pretend enforcement.”

Source : "A Closer Look At Obama Administration's Controversial Deportation Plans". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.
“The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.”
“The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.”
“Roger became a part of me, and when he went off the deep end and became a mad snake, I felt sorry for him.”
“All the stars will tell the story, of our love and all its glory. Let us make this night of magic, and make it a night of love.”
“Thereâ€™s this thing called progress. But it doesnâ€™t progress. It doesnâ€™t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. Itâ€™s progress if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress I the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-ending retrieving what it lost. A dogged and vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldnâ€™t go mistaking the reclamation of land for the building of empires.”
“I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.”
“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”

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