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“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
Source : Sherlock Holmes in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891).
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“The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.”
Source : Dinesh D'Souza (2014). “America: Imagine a World without Her”, p.6, Regnery Publishing
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“I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I'm a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy.”
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“Regardless of where you're pitching, regardless of what goes on before or after your game, you still have to be ready.”
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“I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.”
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“In the struggle for the rights of the poor in Central America and other places where globalization is bringing its negative effects, there is no organization more effective than the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights.”
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“I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning.”
Source : "The Ghost Writer". Book by Philip Roth, 1979.
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“We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.”
Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Pp. 779-80, 1922.
