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Reality Quotes
"Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves."
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"I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality."
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"The world's not getting any stranger.We are!"
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"We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real."
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"The ultimate security is your understanding of reality."
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"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."
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"One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness."
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"It is true that some of the characters speak coarsely. That is because people speak coarsely in real life. Especially soldiers and hardworking men speak coarsely, and even our most sheltered children know that. And we all know, too, that those words really don't damage children much. They didn't damage us when we were young. It was evil deeds and lying that hurt us."
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"It is a shock to many college graduates that their segway into the real world is one of obligation, profound debt, and countless sacrifices of the soul."
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"Do you really believe that the moon isn't there when nobody looks?"
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"There were two and only two messages that could have been comprehended by what he said.But neither of them was soothing, neither of them was a lie."
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"One is often unconsciously surrounded by one's own personal reality."
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"Stop worrying about what tomorrow may bring. Focus on what you can control. Stay positive. Enjoy today. Expect good things to come."
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"This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is."
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"If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution."
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"Our reality is a blend of the impossible becoming possible."
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"Dominique (who, like other Catamount girls, had a cache of pills for every occasion) offered me a bennie- Benzedrine?- to elevate my spirits. Adamantly I told her, No thanks! I wanted to face what's called reality with my eyes open.I've made that a principle for my life. Sometimes I wonder if this has been a wise decision."
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"A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better."
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"We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is."
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"And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks."
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"You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings."
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"I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a colour photograph of God Almighty - and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable.What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima."
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"Workers can offer guidance for improving the work."
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"We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality."
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"The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria..."
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"We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality."
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"It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality."
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"Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty."
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"Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality."
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"As I squatted on the grass at the edge of the woods, the pee felt hot between my legs. I watched in puddle in the dirt, the smell of it rising into the night. There was no difference between my piss and June's. That's what i thought when I looked at the dark circle on the ground. Piss is Piss."
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"I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker."
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"The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality."
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"Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last."
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"Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy."
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"You are wrong about that, you know, Dr. Andersen replied calmly. This, right here - us talking, sitting in this overlit room, a bunch of shrinks watching us through the tinted windows - this is the dream. The peace you felt before, that is reality. It is the I. The only part of existence that does not change, that cannot change, that will not change. You may not be ready to understand this quite yet, but if you continue meditating, you will."
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"If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead."
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"We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there."
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