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- Gilda Radner America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. - Ayn Rand The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others. - Ayn Rand You kin tame anything son, excusin' the human tongue. - Majorie Kinnan Rawlings A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year. - Dixy Lee Ray The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. - Lady Reading Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. - Ronald Reagan You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans. - Ronald Reagan Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. - Ronald Reagan I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. - Ronald Reagan I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. - Ronald Reagan How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. - Ronald Reagan No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. - Ronald Reagan Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. - Jules Renard Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. - Jules Renard People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. - Agnes Repplier We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. - Agnes Repplier Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it. - Agnes Repplier The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us. - Quentin Reynolds When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened. - John M. Richardson, Jr. Live the questions. - Rilke Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. - Jean Paul Richter The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe. - Frank Rizzo Hemingway was a jerk. - Harold Robbins Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough. - Wess Roberts If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. - Dennis Roch True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. - La Rochefoucauld When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. - La Rochefoucauld There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. - La Rochefoucauld If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. - John D. Rockefeller, Jr. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson. - John Roger I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! - Will Rogers (1879-1935) If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else. - Will Rogers I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers Never let yesterday use up too much of today. - Will Rogers What's considered enough money? Just a little bit more. - Will Rogers No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. - Eleanor Roosevelt When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. - Eleanor Roosevelt You gain strength, experience, and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. - Franklin D. Roosevelt A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad. - Franklin D. Roosevelt The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt If you treat people right, they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something. - Franklin D. Roosevelt It is not the critic who counts, nor the person who points out how the strong person stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena; whose face is actually marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasm and great devotions, whose life is spent in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and at worst, if failure wins out, it at least wins with greatness, so that this person's place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt There are two kinds of success. One is the very rare kind that comes to the man who has the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is genius. But the average man who wins what we call success is not a genius. He is a man who has merely the ordinary qualities that he shares with his fellows, but who has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree. - Theodore Roosevelt The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. - Theodore Roosevelt The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. - Theodore Roosevelt The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. - Theodore Roosevelt Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. - Theodore Roosevelt Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour. - Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. - Jean Jacques Rousseau You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir. - Martin Routh A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland (1876-1950) Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society. - Richard Royster Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russel To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. - Bertrand Russell The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn. - David Russell You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. - Rwandan proverb |