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Quite minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.
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Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
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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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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
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Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
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Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.
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Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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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 courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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