Arthur Jensen Quotes
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin 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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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
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The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
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People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
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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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I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.
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Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
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My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
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Conservatives spent an awful long time ignoring things: the birthers, the bigots, the xenophobes, the alternative-reality media. We had assumed that they were postcards from the fringe.
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There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
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If I was to have a reality show, it wouldn't be a show based on my personal life. I'd want it to showcase me and my girls on tour, like living life as a young artist, not exposing what goes on in my family situations.
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I've never seen a reality show. I don't watch television.
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The question I get more than any other is, 'What does it mean to direct an animated film?' And the reality is that it's not a whole lot different from what you do in live action.
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Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.
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There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.
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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
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The Devil is an Ass, I do acknowledge it.
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There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.
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Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.
