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RICHARD ENGEL When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for... RICHARD ENGEL Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the see... RICHARD ENGEL MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and... RICHARD ENGEL ...in the assassination of three of its first four caliphs, the “successors” to Mohammed and rul... RICHARD ENGEL The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a bri... RICHARD BRANSON The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current d... RICHARD CORLISS I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaki... RICHARD DONNER There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing... RICHARD DAWKINS Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small ... RICHARD THALHEIMER Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real... RICHARD FEYNMAN As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of the ungodly. ... RICHARD BAXTER Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 I apprehended it a Matter o... 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