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The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump. ↗

— Boyle Roche

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Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences. ↗

— George G. Simpson

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Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out. ↗

— Arthur Rock

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I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes. ↗

— Kid Rock

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One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

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The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

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We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. ↗

— Knute Rockne

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This was all of it, no doubt, the strange passing feeling that had come to me in the boat. Age. Vanity. The impossibility of accepting the new versions of oneself that life kept offering. The impossibility of the old version’s vanishing. ↗

— Sue Miller

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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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There have been great champions in every generation. ↗

— Andy Roddick

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