Quotes 3941 till 3960 of 6176.
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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p -
Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
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Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.
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Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
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Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.
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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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Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
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Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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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!
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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.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
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Reality is merely an illusion , albeit a very persistent one.
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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.
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Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
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Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.
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