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  • George Bernard Shaw Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Charles Dickens Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
    Sketches by Boz (1836-1837) Characters, Ch. 2 : A Christmas Dinner
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Annie Besant Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Burning Spear Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
    Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Patrick Henry Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.
    Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Paul Tillich Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
    Paul Tillich
    German-American theologian and philosopher (1886 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see?
    Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be
    And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest
    Stranded in the park and forced to confess
    To hiding on the Backstreets.
    Born To Run (1975) Backstreets
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Alexander the Great Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Buddy Ebsen Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit!
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  • Beatrice Webb Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Cass Sunstein Republicans are right to express concern about excessive regulation, and they can do a lot to reduce it, above all by scrutinizing rules on the books and by putting all new proposals through a cost-benefit filter. There's room for plenty of creativity here.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Paine Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Carl Honore Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Wernher Von Braun Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
    Wernher Von Braun
    German-American rocket scientist and scientist (1912 - 1977)
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  • Salman Rushdie Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
    (2015)
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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