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  • John Dryden Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Brandon DiCamillo Ralph could you please sit down and behave yourself or we are going to have to throw you out. As a matter of fact Ralph can you leave right now?....Ok sit down.
    From Brans Icelandic Gameshow
    Brandon DiCamillo
    American actor, stunt performer, filmmaker and musician (1976 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Rascals are always sociable - more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Benny Green Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Aneurin Bevan Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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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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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Ronald Reagan Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Bill Dedman Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • George Gurdjieff Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • William E. Gladstone Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Billy Bennett Remember what the Patriarch King Solomon
    Told his harem on the night they'd had a few:
    Teetotalum overcoatum asqua scutum atomack
    Sonata with tomoto, laringitis, cul de sac.
    Translation: If your rhubarb's fallen try and bend it back.
    That's a motto for the likes of me and you.
    Mottoes line 41
    Billy Bennett
    British comedian
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  • Edwin H. Stuart Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bokeem Woodbine Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'
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  • Calvin Harris Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Rigondeaux was Cuba's answer to Bobby Fischer who transformed into a kind of Lee Harvey Oswald traitorous creature in that society. He escaped on a smuggler's boat and toppled one of the best fighters in the world in 2013 with his obliteration of Nonito Donaire at Radio City Music Hall. He made it look so easy, his career has never recovered.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bruce Springsteen Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair.
    Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere.
    We've got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels.
    Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks.
    Born To Run (1975) Thunder Road
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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