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Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
– John Rawls
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Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
– Usher Raymond
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In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.
– Lee R. Raymond
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I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
– Ronald Reagan
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Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
– Ronald Reagan
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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
– Ronald Reagan
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
– Ronald Reagan
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It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
– Thomas Brackett Reed
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I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
– Joseph Ernest Renan
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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
– Joseph Ernest Renan
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When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
– Joseph Ernest Renan
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As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.
– Jules Renard
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We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
– Jules Renard
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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
– Adrienne Rich
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
– Adrienne Rich
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One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
– Bob Richards
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It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.
– Michael Richards
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Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.
– Lionel Richie
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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
– Jean Paul Richter
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Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
– 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.
– Jean Paul Richter
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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
– Jean Paul Richter
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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
– Jean Paul Richter
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Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
– Jean Paul Richter
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During my whole life I have not found a happier hunting ground than in the course of the Somme Battle. In the morning, as soon as I had got up, the first Englishmen arrived, and the last did not disappear until long after sunset. Boelcke once said that this was the El Dorado of the flying men.
– Manfred von Richthofen
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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
– Manfred von Richthofen
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There are some moments in one's life which tickle one's nerves particularly and the first solo-flight is among them.
– Manfred von Richthofen
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I don't like the subtle infiltration of 'something for nothing' philosophies into the very hearthstone of the American family. I believe that 'Thou shalt earn the bread by the sweat of thy face' was a benediction and not a penalty. Work is the zest of life; there is joy in its pursuit.
– Branch Rickey
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This ball - this symbol; its it worth a whole man's life?
– Branch Rickey
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I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.
– Leni Riefenstahl
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I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see.
– Leni Riefenstahl
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The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.
– Leni Riefenstahl
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Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.
– Leni Riefenstahl
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There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT. There's no such thing as life in-between.
– Pat Riley
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No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
– Bob Riley
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Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
– Arthur Rimbaud
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
– Arthur Rimbaud
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
– Arthur Rimbaud
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
– Arthur Rimbaud
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
– Arthur Rimbaud
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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
– Antoine Rivarol
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I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later.
– Diego Rivera
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July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.
– Diego Rivera
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I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
– Joan Rivers
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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
– Joan Rivers
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I'm a musicologist, and I know that this is very rare. As a matter of fact, it's unique in the history of jazz, this group that I'm performing with, this trio. No other trio does these kind of things. I mean, it's an experience you will only hear with this group. It's a one-time experience in life, if you don't come back and hear us again, which would be different anyway.
– Sam Rivers
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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
– Anthony Robbins
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In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
– Anthony Robbins
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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
– Anthony Robbins
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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
– Anthony Robbins
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One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
– Anthony Robbins
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Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
– Anthony Robbins
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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
– Anthony Robbins
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Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
– Anthony Robbins
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The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
– Anthony Robbins
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Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
– Anthony Robbins
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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
– Anthony Robbins
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Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.
– Tim Robbins
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I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life.... It's a religious thing.
– Marty Robbins
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I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.
– Julia Roberts
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I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.
– Julia Roberts
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I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.
– Julia Roberts
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What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.
– Julia Roberts
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Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.
– Jane Roberts
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A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
– Frederick William Robertson
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However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.
– Frederick William Robertson
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Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
– Frederick William Robertson
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Life, like war, is a series of mistakes, and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest false steps. He is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes; organize victory out of mistakes.
– Frederick William Robertson
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Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
– Frederick William Robertson
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
– Jackie Robinson
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
– Jackie Robinson
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I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.
– Brooks Robinson
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I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.
– Brooks Robinson
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I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.
– Chris Rock
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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
– John D. Rockefeller
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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
– John D. Rockefeller
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There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and how well you look.
– Nelson Rockefeller
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Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.
– Norman Rockwell
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Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.
– Norman Rockwell
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The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.
– Norman Rockwell
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When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.
– Norman Rockwell
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Being a runner means you are now free to win and lose and live life to its fullest.
– Bill Rodgers
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After awhile, when I started boxing, and started really fighting within myself, my animalistic qualities, and I started letting out all the aggressions that I've learned to suppress throughout my life, I realized how beautiful it is, to let loose and feel free.
– Michelle Rodriguez
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I grew up a Jehovah's Witness because my grandmother was really influencing that lifestyle on me. That is a very morally intense religion. And although they keep you from experiencing a lot of the bad things that can really hurt you out there in the world, they are also depriving you from experiencing life... Whenever I would visit my dad, it was like Freud and Darwin... So I grew up torn. That's my background.
– Michelle Rodriguez
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It's pretty intriguing what you learn. Twelve minutes of three-dimensional footage cost so much money. Like, $60 million. Your imagination runs wild. You have all these possibilities. You can do anything with film and make anything come to life.
– Michelle Rodriguez
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To make a video game come to life was definitely a childhood fetish of mine. I have to admit there's not much substance there, but it was fun.
– Michelle Rodriguez
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
– Carl R. Rogers
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If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
– Will Rogers
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Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.
– James E. Rogers
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How a community supports the arts provides insight into how the community views itself. By promoting vibrancy in the arts, we encourage a positive self-image for our community, our company and our employees. We make everyone's life better by bringing the arts closer to them.
– James E. Rogers
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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
– Jim Rohn
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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
– Jim Rohn
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The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
– Jim Rohn
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When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.
– Mitt Romney
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I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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