Reality Quotes
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You can't be entirely unguarded in politics. Even appearing to be unguarded is as much a facade as a reality.
Chris Gabrieli
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The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality.
Mark Ryan
Adam and the Ants
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What would that be, a world without war? It would be the real world. Peace was the true life, the life of working and learning and bringing up children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and children, was the denial of reality.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population. If you pull away the curtain and show the reality of power, people are motivated to question the fictions that govern their own lives.
John Twelve Hawks
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Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.
Kenneth Rexroth
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Ch. 11 : LSD Experience and Reality
Albert Hofmann
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The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.
Kevin Young
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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
Octavio Paz
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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
Abraham Lincoln
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There have been a good many funny things said and written about hardupishness, but the reality is not funny, for all that. It is not funny to have to haggle over pennies. It isn't funny to be thought mean and stingy. It isn't funny to be shabby and to be ashamed of your address. No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty - to the poor.
Jerome K. Jerome
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The idea of money being something physical is almost entirely a fiction. Sure, you can go to your ATM and pull out cash. And you can feel cash in your back pocket and have some tangible comfort there - but in reality, the majority of your money is a number on a screen.
Tyler Winklevoss
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
Vernon Howard
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I'm not cynical, but the reality is that life is mortal. Terrible, sad things happen. Everybody loses friends and family. I'll be on tour and get really scared if my wife won't answer her phone within one minute. I'm sensitive.
Kurt Vile
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We should eat less meat - all of us - and we should use less leather. I mean, that's reality.
Jochen Zeitz
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Dreams, Mr. Nyazi, are perfect ideals, complete in themselves. How can you impose them on a constantly changing, imperfect, incomplete reality? You would become a Humbert, destroying the object of your dream; or a Gatsby, destroying yourself.
Azar Nafisi
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It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.
Amin Maalouf
