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| The years teach us much the days never knew. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| A man's library is a sort of harem. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. | Rami Belson | |
| Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. | Raoul Vaneigem | 1934-, Belgian Situationist Philosopher |
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| You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. | Ray Bradbury | 1920-, American Science Fiction Writer |
| While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. | Ray Kroc | 1902-1984, American businessman, Founder of McDonalds |
| A good title is the title of a successful book. | Raymond Chandler | 1888-1959, American Author |
| At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. | Raymond Chandler | 1888-1959, American Author |
| The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action. | Raymond Holliwell | |
| It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. | Rene Daumal | 1908-1944, French Poet, Critic |
| More can be learned from what works than from what fails. | Rene Dubos | 1901-1982, French-born American Bacteriologist |
| Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual] | Richard Bach | 1936-, American Author |
| Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last. | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist |
| Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. | Richard McKenna | |
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| The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. | Richard Rorty | 1931-, American Philosopher |
| The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different. | Rick Pitino | American College Basketball Coach |
| Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing. | Robert Benchley | 1889-1945, American Humorist, Critic, Parodist |
| The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. | Robert Burchfield | 1923-, New Zealand Scholar, Lexicographer |
| Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. | Robert Byrne | |
| Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. | Robert Chambers | 1802-1871, Scottish Publisher, Writer |
| You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country. | Robert Frost | 1875-1963, American Poet |
| Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. | Robert Green Ingersoll | 1833-1899, American Orator, Lawyer |
| Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself. | Robert Heinlein | 1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer |
| Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist |
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| To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist |
| All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist |
| Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it. | Robert Wilson | 1941-, American Theater Director, Designer |
| If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body. | Roberto Clemente | 1934 - 1972, American Baseball Player |
| A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. | Robertson Davies | 1913-, Canadian Novelist, Journalist |
| The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. | Robertson Davies | 1913-, Canadian Novelist, Journalist |
| Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. | Roland Barthes | 1915-1980, French Semiologist |
| Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. | Roland Barthes | 1915-1980, French Semiologist |
| Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. | Roland Barthes | 1915-1980, French Semiologist |
| Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning. | Rosenstock Huessy | |
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| Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. | Roy Jr. Blount | American Sports Writer |
| I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who. | Rudyard Kipling | 1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse |
| Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. | Rudyard Kipling | 1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse |
| Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading. | Rufus Choate | 1799-1859, American Lawyer, Statesman |
| A book is the only immortality. | Rufus Choate | 1799-1859, American Lawyer, Statesman |
| Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading. | Rufus Choate | 1799-1859, American Lawyer, Statesman |
| A book is the only immortality. | Rufus Choate | 1799-1859, American Lawyer, Statesman |
| A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. | Rupert Brooke | 1887-1915, British Poet |
| A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own. | Russel Green | |
| After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? | Russell Hoban | 1925-, American Author |
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