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Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas. – Rolfe Neill
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. – Albert Einstein
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary. – Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe
Ready money works great cures. – French Proverb
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief. – Publilius Syrus
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost. – Mort Sahl
Real and solid happiness springs from moderation. – Goethe
Real art is without irony. Irony distances the author from his material. Irony is a product of something. It's not the reason for doing something. Irony is a cheap shot. – Robert Altman
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding. – Ezra Loomis Pound
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. – Lady Nancy Astor
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. – Nancy Astor
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. – Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. – Charles Lindbergh
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find it out. – Frank A. Clark
Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. – Albert Camus
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. – Joseph P. Thompson
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. – Oprah Winfrey
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. – Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever. – Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine" #155
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. – Confucius
Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. – Thomas Arnold
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity. – Bertrand Russell

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