#rest

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. ↗

— David Riesman

#big #capacity #chinese #concealment #humorous

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#because #brethren #developing #developing world #die

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! ↗

— Tony Robbins

#achieve #decade #how #mastered #most

Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting. ↗

— Alain Robert

#authorities #back #events #host #i

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#appealing #attention #going #interesting #long

Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice. ↗

— Pat Roberts

#cents #despite #dole #dollar #generous

It's interesting to see how we are all uniquely different. ↗

— Jai Rodriguez

#how #interesting #see #uniquely

Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#body #interests #international #long-term #nations

You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest. ↗

— Todd Rokita

#fighting #interest #me #national #national security

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#books #history #history books #i #i think