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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Bernard Crick Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Angela Carter Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Ian McEwan Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Carlos Fuentes Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Albert Camus Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
    Original: La vraie générosité envers l'avenir consiste à tout donner au présent.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Arnold Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Aldous Huxley Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Caleb Deschanel Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Cesare Pavese Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Henry Miller Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Thomas J. Watson Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • Virginia Woolf Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • C. Robert Kehler Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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  • Aaron Hill Reason gains all men, by compelling none.
    Mercy was always Heaven's distinguished mark:
    And he, who bears it not, has no friend there.
    Alzira (1736) Act I, Sc. 1
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Aaron Hill Reason gains all people by compelling none.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Charles Dickens Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
    Sketches by Boz (1836-1837) Characters, Ch. 2 : A Christmas Dinner
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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