The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.


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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
Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
RICHARD PRYOR
I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.
RICHARD PRYOR
I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel b...
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
RICHARD RUSSO
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
RICHARD FORD
To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the bol...
RICHARD JEFFERIES
Experiments suggest that if one particle of Ebola enters a person's bloodstream, it can cause a ...
RICHARD PRESTON
Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would ...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS
Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish ...
RICHARD SELZER
This is a place where you really are what you achieve in Houston, and that's a tremendous boon t...
RICHARD KINDER
And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is m...
RICHARD HOVEY
The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
RICHARD OWEN
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of som...
RICHARD POWERS
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don'...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's min...
RICHARD CORLISS
A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, 'Boyhood' shimmers ...
RICHARD CORLISS
Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a conti...
RICHARD MITCHELL
Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone s...
RICHARD MITCHELL
Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as ...
RICHARD MITCHELL
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui...
RICHARD MCKENNA
Above us was a canopy, the stretching arms of cedar and spruce and Douglas fir. We knew to follow in...
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