"One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads."  H. L. Mencken

"Books give not wisdom where none was before.  But where some is, there reading makes it more."  John Harrington

"Literate children become literate adults."  Laura Bush

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."  Logan Pearsall Smith

"Readers think that their experience of the written word, i.e., reading, is comparable to a writer's experience while writing."  Carl Thress

Reading gives "the vitality of youth even to old age."  Isaac D'Israel

"Reading is a critical family skill."  Laura Bush

"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own."  Arthur Schopenhauer

"Take up, read!  Take up, read!"  St Augustine

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."  Mark Twain

"When you read a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before.  You see more in you than you than was there before."  Clifton Fadiman

Real Estate

"Of course I believe in evil.  I work in real estate."  Desperate Housewives

 

Realist

"An idealist believes that the short run doesn't count.  A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter.  A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."  Sidney J. Harris

 

Reality

"A cat can have biscuits in the oven, but that don't make 'em biscuits."  Frazier

"However much trouble you may take with a bull, you'll never get any milk out of him."  Nikolai Gogol,  Dead Souls (Vintage Classics)

"I don't have to explain reality.  I just have to deal with it."  Matthew Stover,  Star Wars: Shatterpoint

"My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened."  Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

"Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs."  Lily Tomlin

"Reality is what we take to be true.  What we take to be true is what we believe.  What we believe is based on our perceptions.  What we perceive depends on what we look for.  What we look for depends on what we think.  What we think depends on what we perceive.  What we perceive determines what we take to be true.  What we take to be true is our reality."  Zukav

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist believes it will change; ah, but the realist adjusts the sail."  Unknown

"The trouble with reality is - it's never the way you imagine it."  Lynn Johnson,  For Better or Worse

"There's no sense getting mad at a cat for being a cat."  Bruce Coville,  Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher  

"Whatever you can dream can become reality."  Charles S. Schwab

 

Reason

Never let the future disturb you.  You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason, which today arm you against the present."  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

  

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