#than

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#go #had #having #husband #loss

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#appeals #maverick #me #more #passive

I tend to dress a little more sophisticated than most women do. ↗

— Nicole Richie

#i #little #more #most #sophisticated

I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you. ↗

— Andy Richter

#awkward #compliment #host #i #i think

For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce a different relative magnitude rating than using light energy from the middle of the spectrum. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#energy #example #for example #infrared #large

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#closer #constant #course #earthquakes #emerged

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#did #enough #good #i #in my opinion

It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#better #come #customers #look #shop

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#forty #germans #important #machines #minority

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil. ↗

— Branch Rickey

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