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61 " Women now seek to involve themselves in the life of their government because their government has involved itself in their lives! "
― Graham Moore , The Sherlockian
62 " No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. —KARL POPPER A "
― Graham Moore , The Last Days of Night
63 " What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what is going on. —JACQUES COUSTEAU "
64 " would first meet Thomas Edison, Paul watched a man burn "
65 " Bankers all wanted to be princes. Professors all wanted to be Martin Luther. "
66 " Inept lying was almost as good as honesty. "
67 " Art is a social object, books and films and records and television shows, they’re social objects that bring people together in conversation. I love the notion that I could write something that two people could share. That’s the goal. "
― Graham Moore
68 " Some writing one had to do in the dark. "
69 " Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people. —STEVE JOBS "
70 " I think I love the idea that problems have solutions. I think that’s the appeal of mystery stories, whether they’re Holmes or someone else. In those stories we live in an understandable world. We live in a place where every problem has a solution, and if we were only smart enough, we could figure them out. "
71 " All stories are love stories. Paul remembered someone famous saying that. Thomas Edison’s would be no exception. All men get the things they love. The tragedy of some men is not that they are denied, but that they wish they’d loved something else. "
72 " England is changing. The Morrigan is not a cause of that change; she is an effect. Have you been to Whitechapel, Dr. Doyle? Have you seen the depredations there? A hundred thousand ladies enslaved as whores. Have you been to Westminster? Another hundred thousand enslaved as chars. The women of England have but three choices in this age. We toil with our hands, we toil with our cunts, or we marry rich and toil with our very hearts. Which would you choose? "
73 " If the day hadn’t yet convinced him of the merits of women’s suffrage, it had certainly convinced him of the justness of the movement for Rational Dress. "
74 " He would have achieved victory and rebellion at the same time. "
75 " Arthur thought about this, and decided quite rationally that lying was by far the best approach to take. "
76 " No worn, ink-drenched leather journal for the period from October 11 through December 23, 1900, could be found. "
77 " Of all the conventions of mystery stories, the one that’s impossible to break is the solution at the end. "
78 " Wanting to know. Everybody wants to know. But maybe growing up means accepting that you're not always able to. "
― Graham Moore , The Holdout
79 " High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. —CHARLES F. KETTERING, INVENTOR OF THE ELECTRICAL STARTER "
80 " You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. —STEVE JOBS "