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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. ↗

— Hyman Rickover

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When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past. ↗

— Christopher Ricks

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This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency. ↗

— Sally Ride

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#cells #community #inhabitants #innumerable #made

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image. ↗

— Leni Riefenstahl

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And I think that every American - this is an all-hands-on-deck moment for America. And I think it is good and important that every American is informed, understands the issues and whether I agree with them or not, comes into the public forum and we hear from them. ↗

— Scott Rigell

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The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. ↗

— David Riesman

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The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

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