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In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.


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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Well, Watson, what do you make of it?'

Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murd...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind."
"Then possibly my answer has crossed y...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gig...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?'

'To the curious incide...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the a...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs f...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income o...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the wo...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, bu...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Era peor la herida... eran peor muchas heridas... que saber la profundidad de lealtad y amor que yac...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE When will you be pleased to dine, Mr. Holmes?' Mrs. Hudson asked. 'Seven-thirty, the day after to-mo...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be built on ten thousand ruined men wh...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE . . . and meanwhile take my assurance that the clouds are lifting and that I have every hope that th...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange,...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE