"Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

“[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.”
“I'm a Gucci girl all the way.”
“Iraq's always been very secular.”

Source : "Christofer Cerf and Victor Navasky on Iraq". "Bill Moyers Journal", billmoyers.com. May 2, 2008.
“I feel very, very blessed.”
“The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good.”
“I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.”
“I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i. e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.”

Source : "The Essence of Christianity". Book by Ludwig Feuerbach (1841), Preface to Second Edition, 1843.
“When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”

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