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The Renaissance scholar Michel de Montaigne said, 'there is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom,' ... Drama, comedy and tragedy all have their roots in the compelling theatre of life that is closest to us all our relationships with those tied to us by blood.


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RICHARD PAYMENT The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibil...
RICHARD ROHR No question that 'Birdman' is a breathtaking technical achievement, not a stunt. Shot in 30 ...
RICHARD CORLISS I’ll affect you slowly
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the diff...
RICHARD WHATELY Listen, buddy, if I could tell you in a minute what I did, it wouldn't be worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMAN Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each sid...
RICHARD ENGEL How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyo...
RICHARD DAWKINS The visual team of 'Blade Runner' - one of the last big fantasy movies to be made without mu...
RICHARD CORLISS In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This ...
RICHARD CORLISS 'Blade Runner' was one of several dystopian science-fiction films to tank in the early and m...
RICHARD CORLISS Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.
RICHARD CARLSON I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains more useful information than the w...
RICHARD COBDEN Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.
RICHARD BRANSON I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live n...
RICHARD FEYNMAN I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when a...
RICHARD LAMM "Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the ...
RICHARD BENTLEY There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because y...
RICHARD BACH What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.
RICHARD SHELTON Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as th...
RICHARD MARCINKO If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, t...
RICHARD MARCINKO The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been...
RICHARD DAWKINS Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Human...
RICHARD DAWKINS False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives n...
RICHARD BURTON If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, -- Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such li...
RICHARD LOVELACE