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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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"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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"I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened."
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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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"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'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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"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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"We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality."
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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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"This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is."
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"It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality."
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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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"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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"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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"We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is."
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"One is often unconsciously surrounded by one's own personal reality."
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"The ultimate security is your understanding of reality."
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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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"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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"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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"The notion of the world as a village is becoming a 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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"We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality."
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"If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead."
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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 are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers."
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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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"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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"There is cost for everything."
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"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."
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