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Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
Uncategorised
Theodore Roosevelt

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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Effort
Theodore Roosevelt

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Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that?
Desire
William Ross

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And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
Death and Dying
Christina Rossetti

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For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
World
Christina Rossetti

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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
Paradise
Jean Rostand

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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
Science and Scientists
Jean Rostand

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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
Mistakes
Jean Rostand

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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
Involvement
Jean Rostand

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Books - Reading
Jean Rostand

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Power
Jean Rostand

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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Writers and Writing
Leo Rosten

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I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.
Audiences
John Lydon Rotten

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Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
Painters and Painting
Georges Rouault

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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Misfortunes
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
Suffering
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
Heart
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
Goodness
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
Integrity
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Promises
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
Fortune
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Motivation
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
Science and Scientists
Joseph Roux

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A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Bachelor
Helen Rowland

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