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"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realise that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
Ronald Reagan
"Works of art are of an infinite solitariness, and nothing is less likely to bring us near to them than criticism. Only love can apprehend and hold them, and can be just towards them."
Rainer Maria Rilke, Briefe an einen jungen Dichter
"Don't worry about things that you have no control over, because you have no control over them. Don't worry about things that you have control over, because you have control over them."
Mickey Rivers
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers
"To understand everything is to hate nothing."
Romain Rolland
"Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad."
Leo C. Rosten
"Mute icons are the only kind of beauty we find acceptable today."
Mark Rothko, Thanks Rosie / Manics
"Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, La Nouvelle Heloise
"One of these days in your travels a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in you ear. But son, do not bet this man, for sure as you stand there, you are going to wind up with an earful of cider."
Damon Runyon