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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Love
Nick Richardson

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Calamity is the test of integrity.
Calamity
Samuel Richardson

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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
Secrets
Cardinal De Richelieu

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To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.
Deception
Cardinal De Richelieu

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Character
Jean Paul Richter

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
Friends and Friendship
Jean Paul Richter

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Adversity
Jean Paul Richter

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Age and Aging
Jean Paul Richter

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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Forgiveness
Jean Paul Richter

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I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
Success
Jean Paul Richter

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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Motivation
Jean Paul Richter

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Happiness
Jean Paul Richter

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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
Courtesy
Jean Paul Richter

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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Birthdays
Jean Paul Richter

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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Memory
Jean Paul Richter

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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Sorrow
Jean Paul Richter

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The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
Miracles
Jean Paul Richter

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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Airplane and Aviation
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

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Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Courage
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
Friends and Friendship
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Literature
Laura Riding

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
Marriage
Madame De Rieux

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We are decent 99 percent of the time, when we could easily be vile.
Decency
R. W. Riis

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.
Business
Meshulam Riklis

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
Change
Pat Riley

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun