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		The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you stick too rigidly to a 'No Drama' rule in the White House, you risk keeping reality at bay. Presidencies are always about crisis management.
	
	  Maureen Dowd Maureen Dowd
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		Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.
	
	  Faith Popcorn Faith Popcorn
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		In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.
	
	  Michael Jai White Michael Jai White
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		The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality.
	
	  Chuck Klosterman Chuck Klosterman
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		During an Ecstasy, LSD or mushroom experience, many people feel unbounded compassion for others and themselves. During a trip, the typical boundaries of our identity dissolve and you're able to experience your unity with all dimensions of reality simultaneously. It can be overwhelming, but it can also be a guidepost and affirmation of the soul's mission in life. A good trip can help us see and feel how perfect, beautiful and precious the world is, despite news reports to the contrary we get from CNN.
	
	  Alex Grey Alex Grey
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		The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.
	
	  Bradley A. Smith Bradley A. Smith
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		For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.
	
	  Patrick Wilson Patrick Wilson
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		Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.
	
	  Anne Carson Anne Carson
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		It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.
	
	  Cathy Rigby Cathy Rigby
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		Anyone who dares to speak about an aether is regarded as an ignorant and backward mind and he can only lose his credibility in scientific circles, although in reality those who criticize him use the same concept of intermediate medium in other words, whether it be fields, an associated fluid, a probability fluid, a pilot fluid, a quantum fluid, etc.
	
	  Maurice Allais Maurice Allais
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		I am absolutely convinced there should be financial and political incentives for states to declare. You shouldn't be the pariah of the world if you say you have Ebola, but in reality this is what happens.
	
	  Joanne Liu Joanne Liu
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		I was a sci-fi addict when I was a kid and a teenager. Novels, graphic novels, movies, it was my way to deal with reality.
	
	  Denis Villeneuve Denis Villeneuve
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		Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.
	
	  Alan Moore Alan Moore
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		The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
	
	  Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger
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		I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours.
	
	  Jay Parini Jay Parini
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		If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
	
	  Marcel Proust Marcel Proust
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		I want to be like the patron saint of reality.
	
	  Fiona Apple Fiona Apple
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		I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.
	
	  Damian Lewis Damian Lewis