Ernest Bramah Quotes
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.
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Thought makes reality.
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.
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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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And who would deny the intellect and will of girls? That would be questioning their full humanity. On the average, abstract and mere intellectual activity is not suitable for them; they want to understand reality completely, and they want to comprehend not merely with the intellect but also with the heart.
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There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.
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It is not in the premise that reality Is a solid. It may be a shade that traverses A dust, a force that traverses a shade.
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It is the fallacy of all intellectuals to believe that intellect can grasp life. It cannot, because it works in terms of symbols and language. There is another factor involved: consciousness. If the flame of consciousness is low, a symbol has no power to evoke reality, and intellect is helpless.
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The Chinese authorities think of artists as prostitutes. And in reality it’s true: in the Communist system artists just represent what the power structure seeks them to represent. It is prostitution.'
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Canada now calls itself an 'emerging energy superpower.' In reality, it is nothing more than a Third World energy supermarket.
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The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century, it was solemnly reaffirmed at the Council of Trent against the backdrop of our justification in Christ.
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What you focus on becomes reality. Everybody carries anger inside. But also happiness. Those who focus on anger will always be angry. Those who focus on happiness will.
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The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
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This is not only a matter of relations between Russia and the United States. In my view, any restrictions in the economic sphere that are dictated by considerations of political expediency are extremely harmful for the world economy as a whole. This destroys unity and the rules of the game.
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I am not really a reminiscing type person. I am not nostalgic at all.
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The only thing I learned is that failure sucks, and you never want to do it. There's not a lot to be said for that particular lesson.
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He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in Reality be digging a pit.
