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		Experience shows us that most people's votes are based on their biases, not on objective reality. Elections are a collective gut reaction. That any good comes of it at all is the miracle of democracy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Horsey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Harewood
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm very aware of the chemistry. It's something you can't take for granted. I'm very thankful for it and I recognise the power of its reality in all of our lives. Some people don't and it's a mistake not to because people throw away god-given special chemistry that's very rare, very hard to find.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anthony Kiedis
			
			
				Red Hot Chili Peppers
			
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I speak of family, I immediately think of a support system who can give you a reality check when you need it: a mirror reflection of myself. I believe that we are a result of our family - the people who encourage us and tell us the truth about who we are which helps us to grow through their advice and wisdom.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tasha Smith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you start off writing an album with a band, the reality is that you're constantly in each other's company, so it's really important that you get on with each other.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bernard Sumner
			
			
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		On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think, and act in a language adapted for discussing trees, rocks, and automobiles -- as well as poetry and emotions.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				F. David Peat
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Many people have this memory of traditional TV documentary-making that aims to portray pure reality, and I just don't see that as the only option.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alex Gibney
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Philosophy asks the question of reality as a whole; it asks the question of the structure of being. And it answers in terms of categories, structural laws, and universal concepts.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paul Tillich
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mario Vargas Llosa
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Maimonides
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Caitlyn Jenner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Randall Jarrell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I thought for a very long time that I had to conform or maybe change the way I look, or maybe the hijab was dimming my beauty. I took a moment, and then I realized, you know what, there's a lot of girls who do wear this, and this is their reality. It just made me even more prouder to wear it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Halima Aden
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mary Douglas
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Adam Smith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mario Cantone