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Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
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Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
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Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.
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Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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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!
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
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Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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