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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. ↗

— Philip Roth

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A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons. ↗

— Philip Roth

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Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

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The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas. ↗

— Georges Rouault

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There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race. ↗

— Mike Rounds

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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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