Questioning the Value of Old Rules
We have to see, I think, that questioning the value of old rules is different from simply breaking them.
— Elizabeth Janeway, Between Myth & Morning: Women Awakening
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— Tom Stoppard
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ByHeatherTalent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher
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Commonplaces of Existence
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— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, spoken by Sherlock Holmes in The Red-Headed League
Ditto.