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There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.


Richard Lederer

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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