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«The reason there are so many imbeciles among imprisoned criminals is that an imbecile is so foolish even a detective can detect him»
«A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them»
«Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form»
«The first thing I remember about the world...is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which is at once the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.»
«I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a part of hell will break loose - it'll be much harder to detect»
«Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.»
«In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.»
«The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.»
«Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it has merely been detected.»
«It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.»