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  • William Faulkner Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Augustine Birrell Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
    Augustine Birrell
    British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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  • Babe Ruth Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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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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  • Oprah Winfrey Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Pierre Corneille Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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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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  • Beau Willimon Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Sammy Davis Jr 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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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Realists do not fear the results of their study.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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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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  • Graham Greene Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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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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  • Nathaniel Branden Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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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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  • Arthur Keith Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Ayn Rand Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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