"The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era."

-- Laurie R. King

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“[Richard Leakey is] a robust hero of a man, who actually lives up to the clichÃ©, â€œa big man in every sense of the word.â€ Like other big men he is loved by many, feared by some, and not over-preoccupied with the judgments of any.”
“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”
“The 1911 pistol remains the service pistol of choice in the eyes of those who understand the problem. Back when we audited the FBI academy in 1947, I was told that I ought not to use my pistol in their training program because it was not fair. Maybe the first thing one should demand of his sidearm is that it be unfair.”
“It's often our best friends who make us fall”
“There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.”
“I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.”

Source : "Cry Freedom: Richard Attenborough makes a Mandela of Steve Biko" by Alex von Tunzelmann, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2010.
“Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.”

Source : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.147, Univ of California Press
“People who make no noise are dangerous.”

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