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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day. ↗

— Ramakrishna

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The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

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They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly becomes costly. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

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I probably have become more infamous from two misdemeanors than probably anyone I could think of. ↗

— Paul Reubens

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You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America. ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

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The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

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