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Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship. ↗

— Laura Riding

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His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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I work with nature, although in completely new terms. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

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Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control. ↗

— Terry Riley

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I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album. ↗

— Lee Ritenour

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But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, during the same winter, and that the money raised by them was also applied towards paying for the Orrery. ↗

— David Rittenhouse

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People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#example #higher #improve #look #never

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980. ↗

— Jacques Rivette

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Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. ↗

— Jim Rohn

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