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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.
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Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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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.
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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.
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Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
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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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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.
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Really take the time to focus on finding your voice and making sure that whatever you're creating is of high quality and is useful for people in their everyday lives.
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Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
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Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.
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Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
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Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Source: Sketches by Boz (1836-1837) Characters, Ch. 2 : A Christmas Dinner -
Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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