As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?


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RICHARD BAXTER
Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Lord, it belongs not to my car...
RICHARD BAXTER
Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your L...
RICHARD BAXTER
Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass....
RICHARD PETTY
One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every li...
RICHARD MARX
I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat a...
RICHARD COBDEN
Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for o...
RICHARD BACH
You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misna...
RICHARD ARMITAGE
Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like goin...
RICHARD SIMMONS
A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebt...
RICHARD CARMONA
But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and...
RICHARD SIMMONS
My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. I try to be the clown and court...
RICHARD SIMMONS
Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly,...
RICHARD DAWKINS
People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to ...
RICHARD BRANSON
I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around i...
RICHARD WAGNER
I want the market to work if it can, and most of the time it will, but not without some pain.
RICHARD SHELBY
Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It's also the right thing...
RICHARD BRANSON
If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because th...
RICHARD LEWIS
In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there...
RICHARD BRANSON
For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into wo...
RICHARD ENGEL
I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It's on a rocky hill ov...
RICHARD BRANSON
Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort ...
RICHARD LOUV
Before sequels became the most reliable way to make a buck, Bond set the standard for lavish serial ...
RICHARD CORLISS
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discour...
RICHARD DAWKINS
My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.'...
RICHARD HAMMOND
I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
LITTLE RICHARD
The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is ...
RICHARD SAUNDERS
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature canno...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of...
RICHARD ARMITAGE
My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever si...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS
I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about lon...
RICHARD SCHIFF
Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.
RICHARD NEY
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of...
RICHARD POWERS
Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.
RICHARD FRANCK
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is soc...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness a...
RICHARD HALLOWAY