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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about criminals, rules, things, face

In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.

Quote by Hans Eysenck

There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.

Quote by Richard Gere about nothing, film, light, real estate

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

Quote by Salma Hayek about mind

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about film, need

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Quote by Franz Kafka about nothing, love

In order to get a loan, you must first prove you don't need it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about order, need

Exceptions prove the rule, and destroy the battle plan.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, destruction, rules

If enough data is collected, a board of inquiry can prove anything.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war

A Purple Heart just proves that were you smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, intelligence, heart

Assume every female between 6 and 106 is pregnant until proven otherwise.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine

Assume that all field personnel are idiots until their actions prove your assumption.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine

Always assume that any Physician found at the scene of an emergency is a Gynecologist, until proven otherwise.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine

A timer reading showing a negative number proves that cowboys really can go faster than the speed of light which makes Einstein a waddy.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cowboys, speed, numbers, light

All CB shooters are proven, professional gamblers.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cowboys

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.

Quote by Conor Cruise O'Brien about nation, things

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

Quote by Ken Olsen about computers, literature, affair

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

Quote by Camille Paglia about woman, attention, sex, man