Quotes 2321 till 2340 of 3972.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
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Reality is a formless lure,
And only when we know this
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
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Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.
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Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.
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Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.
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Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
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Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
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