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RACE : God hath made of one blood all nations of men. (Unknown source)

RACE—CLASS : Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, neither persons nor property will be safe. (Unknown Source)

RACES : This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again. (James Baldwin, U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

RACISM : Racism is a system, not an event. (Kehaulani J. Kauanui, U.S. (native Hawaiian) author, editor, radio producer, educator, who serves on advisory boards, and is one of six co-founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Born 1968)

RACISM : To engage in serious discussion of race in America, we must begin not with the problems of people of color, but with the flaws of American society-flaws rested in historic inequalities and stereotypes. (Cornel West, U.S. philosopher, political activist, social critic, and author, Born 1953)

RACISM : In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist. (Angela Davis, U.S. activist, author, and professor, Born 1944)

RAIN : Vexed sailors curse the rain for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. (Edmund Waller, English poet and politician, 1606-1687)

RAINBOWS : A rainbow in the morning Is the Shepherd's warning; But a rainbow at night Is the Shepherd's delight. (Proverb)

READING : What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. (Isadora Duncan, U.S. and French dancer who performed to acclaim throughout Europe, 1877-1927)

READING : Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. (Arthur Helps, English writer, 1813-1875)

READING : Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. (Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, playwright, politician., and co-founder of The Spectator magazine, 1672-1719)

REALIST : The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; but the realist adjusts the sails. (William A. Ward, U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

REALIST : The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; but the realist adjusts the sails. (Unknown Source)

REALITY : Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. (G.K. Chesterton, English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic, (1874-1936)

REALITY : All our interior world is reality - and that perhaps more so than our apparent world. (Marc Chagall, Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin whose creations include virtually every artistic format, 1887-1985)

REASON : The arrogance of reason has separated us from the essence of love. (Kabir, Indian mystic poet and saint, whose writings influenced Hinduism's Bhakti movement and his verses are found in Sikhism's scripture, 1440-1518)

REASON : Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. (Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter, 1905-1982)

REASON : Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. (James Harvey Robinson, U.S. historian who greatly broadened the scope of historical scholarship, 1863-1936)

REASON : You can't reason someone out of something he didn't reason himself into. (Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, political pamphleteer, and cleric 1667-1745)

REASON : Reason is also choice. (John Milton, English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, Paradise Lost, written in blank verse, 1608-1674)

REASON : I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. (Plato, Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 â€“ 348/347 B.C.E.)

REASON : The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)

REASON : All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)

REASON : Reason can in general do more than blind force. (Gallus, Roman Emperor, in a joint rule with his son Volusianus, 206-263 A.D.)

REASON : Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason. (James Randi, Canadian American magician and skeptic, Born 1928)

REBEL : The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. (Erich Fromm, German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)

REBELLION : If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. (Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish poet who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1881-1958)

REBELLION : If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. (Unknown Source)

REFLECTION : When you hit the pause button on a computer, it stops, but when you press the pause button on a human being, it starts. (Dov Seidman, U.S. attorney, columnist, and C.E.O. of an ethics and compliance-management firm, Born 1964)

REFLECTION : Judge each day not by its harvest, but by the seeds you plant. (Unknown source)

REFORM : The hole and the patch should be commensurate. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

REFORMS : Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt. (Eric Hoffer, U.S. moral and social philosopher, author, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

REFORMS : Riots are the voices of the unheard. (Martin Luther King, Jr., U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

REFORMS : All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing. (Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

REFORMS : There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

REFORMS : A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, English writer and politician who coined the phrases 'the pen is mightier than the sword' and 'pursuit of the almighty dollar', 1803-1873)

REGENERATION : From a fallen tree, all make kindling. (Spanish proverb)

REGRETS : No doing without some ruing. (Sigrid Undset, Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1882-1949)

REGRETS : Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret? (L.E. Landon, English poet and novelist, 1802-1838)

REGRETS : Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about. (Alexandra Ripley, U.S. writer best known as the author of Scarlett, written as a sequel to Gone with the Wind, 1934-2004)

REGRETS : Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing. (Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand modernist short story writer and poet, 1888-1923)

REGRETS : Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it. (Unknown source)

REGULATIONS : If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. (Winston Churchill, British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

REGULATIONS - LAWS : If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. (Unknown Source)

RELATIONSHIPS : It takes a friend and an enemy, working in concert, to hurt you to the core the enemy to slander you and the friend to tell you about it. (Unknown source)

RELATIONSHIPS : The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. (Joan Baez, U.S. folksinger and social activist, Born 1941)

RELATIONSHIPS : It takes a friend and an enemy, working in concert, to hurt you to the core the enemy to slander you and the friend to tell you about it. (Unknown source)

RELATIONSHIPS : Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance. (Unknown source)

RELATIONSHIPS : The possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations. (Lewis Hastings, U.S. organic chemist, 1917-1999)

RELATIONSHIPS : An acquaintance is a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. (Ambrose Bierce, U.S. Civil War soldier, wit, writer, and editor, 1842-1914)

RELATIONSHIPS : A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. (Ken Keyes, U.S. personal growth author and lecturer, 1921-1995)

RELATIONSHIPS : Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos. (Havelock Ellis, British physician, writer, and social reformer, 1859-1939)

RELATIONSHIPS : Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom. (William James, U.S. philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician, 1842-1910)

RELATIONSHIPS : Never cut what you can untie. (Joseph Joubert, French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

RELATIONSHIPS : The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. (Karl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

RELATIONSHIPS : If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp. (Latin proverb)

RELATIONSHIPS : It takes a friend and an enemy, working in concert, to hurt you to the core: the enemy to slander you and the friend to tell you about it. (Unknown source)

RELATIONSHIPS : Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. (Albert Schweitzer, French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)

RELATIONSHIPS : In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to. (Robert Brault, U.S. operatic tenor, Born 1963)

RELATIONSHIPS : Sometimes you have to love people from a distance and give them the space and time to get their minds right before you let them back into your life. (Robert Tew)

RELATIONSHIPS : All relationships are important because they reveal the true nature of the relationship we have with ourselves. (Robert Tew)

RELATIONSHIPS : Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them. (Merrit Malloy, U.S. television movie producer, Born 1950)

RELATIONSHIPS : Never cut what you can untie. (Unknown Source)

RELATIONSHIPS : Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. (Madeleine L'Engle, U.S. writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, 1918-2007)

RELATIONSHIPS : Everyone should keep someone elseâ€™s diary. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

RELATIONSHIPS : The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10,000 people. The hardest is with one. (Joan Baez, U.S. singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice, Born 1941)

RELATIONSHIPS : We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. (Albert Camus, French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960)

RELATIONSHIPS : Make yourself necessary to somebody. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

RELATIONSHIPS : Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them. (Norman Vincent Peale, U.S. minister and author known for his work in popularizing the concept of positive thinking, 1898-1993)

RELATIONSHIPS : The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed. (Karl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, 1875-1961)

RELATIVES : The worst hatred is that of relatives. (Tacitus, historian and senator of the Roman Empire, known for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics, 56-117 A.D.)

RELATIVES : No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives. (Platus, Roman playwright whose comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety, c. 254â€“184 B.C.E.)

RELIGION : Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Catholic theologian, 1623-1662)

RELIGION : My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. (Thomas Paine, U.S. philosopher and writer, 1737-1809)

RELIGION : Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION : The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. Only learning what one does not know can rescue one from the lost world in which everyone claims to have THE answer. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION : I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION : Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life -- except religion. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION : Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life -- except religion. (Christopher Hitchens, Anglo-American columnist, social critic, and journalist, 1949-2011)

RELIGION : So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poet, 1850-1919)

RELIGION : If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION : I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. (Frank Lloyd Wright, U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, 1867-1959)

RELIGION : If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. (Thomas Szasz, U.S. professor of psychiatry and author, 1920-2012)

RELIGION : The role of religion should be to inculcate a sense not of infallibility but of humility. (Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S. theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1892-1971)

RELIGION : It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. (Robert A. Heinlein, U.S. science-fiction author, 1907-1988)

RELIGION : Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

RELIGION : One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION : When religion turns men into murderers, God weeps. Too often in the history of religion, people have killed in the name of the God of life, waged war in the name of the God of peace, hated in the name of the God of love, and practiced cruelty in the name of the God of compassion. (Jonathan Sachs, British rabbi, philosopher, and scholar, Born 1948)

RELIGION : True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. (Louis Nizer, U.S. lawyer, author, artist, lecturer, and advisor to those in the worlds of politics, business, and entertainment, 1902-1994)

RELIGION : Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION : The role of religion should be to inculcate a sense not of infallibility but of humility. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION : My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

RELIGION : When religion turns men into murderers, God weeps. Too often in the history of religion, people have killed in the name of the God of life, waged war in the name of the God of peace, hated in the name of the God of love, and practical cruelty in the name of the God of compassion. (Jonathan Sachs, British rabbi, philosopher, and scholar, Born 1948)

RELIGION : O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen. (Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and essayist, 1533-1592)

RELIGION : Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

RELIGION : It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. (Evelyn Waugh, English writer of novels, travel books, and biographies, 1903-1966)

RELIGION : There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience, and recent scientific findings. (Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)

RELIGION : All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. (Henry Clay, U.S. statesman and orator, 1777-1852)

RELIGION : All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All religions, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. (Henry Clay, U.S. statesman and orator, 1777-1852)

RELIGION : It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION : Someone is Hindu, someone is Muslim, someone is Christian / Everyone is hell-bent on not becoming a human being. (Nida Fazli, Indian Hindi and Urdu poet, lyricist and dialogue writer, 1938-2016)

RELIGION : So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION : Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

RELIGION : As for future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. (Charles Darwin, English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

RELIGION : The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain agnostic. (Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin, English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

RELIGION : Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. (Alan Watts, British philosopher who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. 1915-1973)

RELIGION : Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. (George Santayana, U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

RELIGION : When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. (Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939)

RELIGION : With soap baptism is a good thing. (Robert Ingersoll, U.S, writer and orator who campaigned in defense of agnosticism and who was nicknamed 'The Great Agnostic,' 1833-1899)

RELIGION : There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible. (Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist and memoirist who was a committed socialist, 1880-`964)

RELIGION : Religion is the opiate of the people. (Karl Marx, German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revolutionary whose name is associated with the social theory - Marxism, 1818-1883)

RELIGION : I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist, and Confucian. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

RELIGION : If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. (Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1920-2012)

RELIGION : I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays. (Henry Youngman, English-American comedian and musician, 1906-1988)

RELIGION : One religion is as true as another. (Henry Burton, English puritan whose ears were cut off for writing pamphlets attacking the views of the British Archbishop, 1578-1648)

RELIGION : B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. (Unknown source)

RELIGION : I don't see why religion and science can't get along. What's wrong with counting our blessings with a computer? (Robert Orben, U.S. professional comedy writer, magician, and presidential speech writer, Born 1927)

RELIGION : A good life is the only religion. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian, 1608-1661)

RELIGION : I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

RELIGION - BELIEFS : If people are generous, empathic, and charitable, does it matter whether theybelieve in a messiah or a prophet? (Anna Quindlen, U.S. author, journalist, and Pulitzer Prize winning opinion columnist, Born 1952)

RELIGION - CULT : A cult is a religion with no political power. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION - SCIENCE : Spiritual truth is universal; as such, it is the property of no one religion. (Hafez, Persian poet, 1315-1390)

RELIGION - SCIENCE : In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. (Jerry Coyne, U.S. biology professor, Born 1949)

RELIGION - SCIENCE : I don't think that by studying science you will be forced to conclude that there must be a God. But if you have already found God, then you can say, from understanding science, 'Ah, I see what God has done in the world'.' (Carl Feit, U.S. cancer biologist at Yeshiva University and a Talmudic scholar, Born 1946)

RELIGION - SCIENCE : I don’t think that by studying science you will be forced to conclude that there must be a God. But if you have already found God, then you can say, from understanding science, ‘Ah, I see what God has done in the world’.’ (Carl Feit, U.S. cancer biologist at Yeshiva University and a Talmudic scholar, Born 1946)

RELIGION - SCIENCE : If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. (Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, 1840-1928)

RELIGION - SCIENCE : Religion is at its best when it relies on the strength of argument; it is at its worst when it seeks to impose truth by force. (Jonathan Sachs, British rabbi, philosopher, and scholar, Born 1948)

RELIGION - SCIENCE : Insinceriyy: The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. (George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic, 1903-1950)

RELIGION - SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE : One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. (Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer and undersea explorer, 1917-2008)

RELIGION - WAR : Religious canons all too often lead to cannons! (Unknown Source)

REPENTANCE : The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. (P.G. Wodehouse, English novelist and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century, 1881-1975)

REPENTANCE : It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his estimation, and yours too. (Josh Billings, U.S. humor writer and lecturer, often compared to Mark Twain, 1818-1895)

REPUBLICS : Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. (Charles Montesquieu, French judge, man of letters, and political philosopher, 1689-1755)

REPUTATION : The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character. (Emma Dunham Kelley, U.S. writer, 1863-1938)

REPUTATION : Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself? (German Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher, 1844-1900)

REPUTATION : When I did well, I heard it never; When I did ill, I heard it ever. (English proverb)

REQUESTS : Many things are lost for want of asking. (English proverb)

RESEARCH : What is research, but a blind date with knowledge? (Will Henry, U.S. author and screenwriter, 1912-1991)

RESEARCH : If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

RESEARCH : Research is to see what everybody has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. (Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology for Medicine, 1893-1986)

RESEARCH : Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer. (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., U.S. historian, social critic, public intellectual, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 1917-2007)

RESEARCH : Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. (Marston Bates, U.S. zoologist who contributed to the understanding of the epidemiology of yellow fever in South America, 1906-1974)

RESEARCH : The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. (Humphrey Davy, Cornish chemist and inventor, 1778-1829)

RESEARCH : Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I'm doing. Wernher von Braun, German-American aerospace engineer and a pioneer of rocket technology and space science in the U.S., 1912-1977) ()

RESEARCH : The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope. (Ronald Ross, British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology for his work on the transmission of malaria via the mosquito, 1857-1932)

RESISTANCE : The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. (Frederick Douglass, African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895)

RESOLUTIONS : Good resolutions are like babies crying in church. They should be carried out immediately. (Charles M. Sheldon, U.S. minister and leader of the Social Gospel movement,1857-1946)

RESOLUTIONS : I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard. (William Lloyd Garrison, U.S. abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer, 1805-1879)

RESOLUTIONS : For Christian Lent, I gave up my new year's resolutions. (Unknown source)

RESPECT : When we show respect for other living things, they show respect for us. (Arapaho Tribe saying)

RESPECT : The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

RESPONSIBILITY : We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. (Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese-American Buddhist spiritual leader and peace activist, Born 1926)

RESPONSIBILITY : It's not the load that breaks you down; it's the way you carry it. (Lena Horn, U.S. singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist, Born 1917-2010)

RESPONSIBILITY : If architects want to strengthen an old arch, they put more weight on it. (Viktor Frankl, Austrian author, neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997)

RESPONSIBILITY : If architects want to strengthen an old arch, they put more weight on it. (Unknown Source)

RESPONSIBILITY : Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it. (Malcolm Forbes, U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, 1919-1990)

RESPONSIBILITY : As you make your bed you must lie in it. (English proverb)

RESPONSIBILITY : Itï¿½s not the load that breaks you down; itï¿½s the way you carry it. (Lena Horn, U.S. singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist, Born 1917-2010)

RETIREMENT : I feel like an aeroplane at the end of a long flight, in the dusk . . . in search of a safe landing. (Winston Churchill, British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

RETIREMENT : Retirement means twice the spouse and half the income. (Ann Landers, U.S. advice columnist, 1918-2002)

RETIREMENT : When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. (R.C. Sherriff, English writer and nominee for an Academy award, 1896-1975)

RETIREMENT : Retirement: Twice as much spouse, half as much pay. (Unknown source)

RETIREMENT : Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins. (Victoria Billings, U.S. journalist, Born 1945))

RETIREMENT : Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire. (Alex Comfort, British scientist and physician known best for his non-fiction sex manual, 'The Joy of Sex,' 1920-2000)

RETIREMENT : Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. (William Cowper, English poet and forerunner of Romantic poetry, 1731-1800)

RETIREMENT ADJUSTMENT : I didn’t marry you with the thought of spending lunch times together - just breakfast and dinners. (Marlys Davis, U.S. social ecologist and court reporter, Born 1960)

RETRIBUTION : An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. (Unknown Source)

RETRIBUTION : An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

REVENGE : Revenge is an inhuman word. (Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.â€“A.D. 65)

REVOLUTIONARIES : At the risk of sounding ridiculous, the true revolutionary is moved by feelings of love. (Ernesto Che Guevara, Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist, 1928-1967)

REVOLUTIONS : True revolutions . . . restore more than they destroy. (Louise Bogan, U.S. poet who was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress, 1897-1970)

REVOLUTIONS : Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. (Karl Marx, German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revolutionary whose name is associated with the social theory - Marxism, 1818-1883)

RHYTHM : We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles. (Yehudi Menuhin, Belorussian-American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain and widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. 1916-1999)

RICHES : Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. (Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric, 1667-1745)

RICHES : The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

RICHES : A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world. (Mohammed, Arab religious, social and political leader and the founder and prophet of Islam, 570-632 B.C.E.)

RIDICULE : Resort to ridicule only when reason is against us. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

RIGHTEOUSNESS : Doing what is right isn't the problem; it's knowing what is right. (Lyndon B. Johnson, politician who served as the 36th President of the United States, 1908-1973)

RIGHTS : Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

RIGHTS : The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. (Robert Green Ingersoll, U.S. lawyer and orator, 1833-1899)

RIOTS : A riot is the language of the unheard. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)

RISK : Dancing on the edge is the only place to be. (Trisha Brown, U.S. choreographer and dancer, 1936-2017)

RISK : There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances. (David Viscott, U.S. psychiatrist, author, businessman, and media personality, 1938-1996)

RISK : He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

RISK : Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our danger. (J.C.F. von Schiller, German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805)

RISK : Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. (J.C.F. von Schiller, German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805)

RISK : Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. (T.S. Eliot, U.S. born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature who at age 39 became a British subject, subsequently renouncing his U.S. passport, 1888-1965)

RISK : It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! (Delores Ibarruri, Spanish Communist leader and political orator during the Spanish Civil War, 1895-1989)

RISK : He that would have fruit must climb the tree. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

RISK : You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. (Flip Wilson, U.S. comedian, actor, and host of his television series, for which he earned a Golden Globe and two Emmy Awards, 1933-1998)

RISK : You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. (Frederick B. Wilcox, U.S. businessman and author)

RISK : Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. (James Bryant Conant, U.S. chemist, and a transformative President of Harvard University, 1893-1978)

RISK : Danger and delight grow on one stalk. (English proverb)

RISK : The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. (Erica Jong, U.S. novelist, satirist, and poet who figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism, Born 1942)

RISK : For of all sad words of tongues or pen the saddest are these: It might have been. (John Greenleaf Whittier, U.S. Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States, 1807-1892)

RISK : To play it safe is not to play. (Robert Altman, U.S. film director, screenwriter, producer, and five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director, 1925-2006)

RISK : No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm. (Charles F. Kettering, U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering research Foundation, 1876-1958)

RISK : Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? (Frank Scully, U.S. journalist, author, and humorist, 1892-1964)

RISK : You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. (James Thurber, U.S. cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, and playwright, 1894-1961)

RISK : To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. (Bernadette Devlin, Irish civil rights leader and former politician, Born 1947)

RISK : Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. (Ray Bradbury, U.S. author and screenwriter who wrote in a variety of genres, 1920-2012)

RISK : Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Muriel Strode, U.S. poet and writer, 1875-1930)

RISK : Necessity is the mother of taking chances. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

RISK : I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. (Joyce Brothers, U.S. psychologist, television personality and columnist, who wrote a daily newspaper advice column for 53 years, 1927-2013)

RISKS : The perfect helmsman is the one who risks with caution. (Unknown source)

RISKS : What kind of man would live where there is no daring? (Charles A. Lindbergh, U.S. aviator, author, inventor, 1902-1974)

RISKS : Never be afraid to try something new. Remember: Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic. (Unknown source)

RISKS : Never be afraid to try something new. Remember amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic. (Unknown source)

RISKS : Jump and the net will appear. (Mick Ebeling, U.S. film, television and commercial executive producer, author, and entrepreneur, Born 1973)

RISKS : Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make. (Sarah Ban Breathnach, U.S. best-selling author)

RISKS : Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone. (Unknown source)

RISKS : Never be afraid to try something new. Remember; Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic. (Unknown Source)

ROLE MODELS : Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go. (Bernard Malamud, U.S. novelist. short story writer, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, 1914-1986)

ROLE MODELS : If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. (Catherine Aird, English novelist and short story writer, Born 1930)

ROLE MODELS : Children have more need of models than of critics. (Carolyn Coats, U.S. actress in children's theater, 1927-2005)

ROLE MODELS : Example has more followers than reason. (Christian Bovee, U.S. writer of aphorisms, 1820-1904)

ROLE MODELS : One filled with joy preaches without preaching. (Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997)

ROLE MODELS : Imitation is a necessity of human nature. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served both as an Associate Justice and as the Acting Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1841-1935)

ROLE MODELS : From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. (Publilus Syrus, Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 1st Century B.C.E.)

ROMANCE : The minute people fall in love, they become liars. (Harlan Ellison, U.S. writer of speculative fiction, including short stories, screenplays, and literary criticism, Born 1934)

ROYALTY : The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

ROYALTY : The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. (Samuel Johnson, English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

ROYALTY : Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. (William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

RULE OF LAW : The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both Congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

RULES : You are remembered for the rules you break. (Douglas MacArthur, U.S. five-star General who played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II, 1880-1964)

RULES : All is fair in love and war. (John Lyly, English playwright, poet, dramatist, and courtier, 1554-1606)

RULES : He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. (Persian proverb)

RUMORS : What some invent the rest enlarge. (Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric, 1667-1745)