Reality Quotes
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The economic reality is that, thanks to smart machines and global trade, the well-paying, middle-class jobs that were the backbone of Western democracies are vanishing.
Chrystia Freeland
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I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.
Dalai Lama
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It is a different breed of person who wants to be on a reality-TV show.
Bruce Nash
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I think the three years have demonstrated how little this argument has to do with reality.
Yevgeny Primakov
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Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
Paul Johnson
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The goal is to really blur the line. Can you perform a magic trick in a way that someone doesn't think it's a magic trick but is something amazing they haven't seen before? Then they have to wrestle with reality.
Michael Carbonaro
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I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
Norton Juster
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When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.
William James
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I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.
David Grossman
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I have memories of being Ruburt - but the Ruburt I was is not the Ruburt that Ruburt is in his reality.
Jane Roberts
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In reality, the universe is neutral about our existence. Only dogs care.
John Twelve Hawks
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We have to do away with a false and misleading dualism, one which abstracts man on the one hand and technology on the other, as if the two were quite separate kinds of realities.... Man is by nature a technological animal; to be human is to be technological.... When we speak of technology, this is another way of speaking about man himself in one of his manifestations.
Daniel Callahan
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There’s is no fiction surreal enough to capture our current reality.
Aimee Allen The Interrupters
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A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.
Brendan Kennelly
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There was romance and reality truth and dare. People being people, no hero's, just you and me like it always is. We learned how we are together and how we come apart. Life happens.
Stuart Adamson Big Country
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See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.
Mark Gatiss
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To save one life, Mr. Tagomi had to take two. The logical, balanced mind cannot make sense of that. A kindly man like Mr. Tagomi could be driven insane by the implications of such reality.
Philip K. Dick
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On the stage on which we are observing it, - Universal History - Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Beyond the emotionalism and the obvious sense of relief on all sides, I think that there is a recognition that reality may intrude, that perhaps the steps ahead and the days ahead are going to be much more difficult than one expects.
Hanan Ashrawi
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Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.
William Shirley
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I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.
Alice Lowe
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Whenever you're dealing with fantasy, and you're doing vampires or anything that is not too based in reality, and you try to base it in reality, you have so much of a greater chance of sounding hokey.
Moon Bloodgood