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Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#corners #help #know #make #mistakes

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#life #matters #most #place #takes

Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#formation #frequently #generations #group #groups

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. ↗

— John Ruskin

#general #great #great mistakes #mistakes #pride

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#allowed #form #life #likely #short

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#asking #avoided #could #counted #device

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#absolute necessity #actual #conform #every #into

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.' ↗

— David O. Russell

#cannot #ego #fight #get #half

I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#got #i #kick #me #out

People still take it really personally. They come up to me at breakfast places like, 'When are you growing your hair back?' ↗

— Keri Russell

#breakfast #come #growing #hair #like