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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. ↗

— John Ruskin

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What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? ↗

— John Ruskin

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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary. ↗

— Dora Russell

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I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory. ↗

— Graham Russell

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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. ↗

— Mark Russell

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My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival. ↗

— Sonia Rykiel

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The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. ↗

— Richard Russo

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