“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Now that economic realism has finally arrived in India, the future lies in becoming a strong economic power. Dominance in the world… — Mukesh Ambani Copy Share Image
“I also felt that Ron and Hermione would have gotten divorced. I'm sorry, I just do. The end of Harry Potter did… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale,… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
There is the specter of "realism" that is still haunting Chinese contemporary art - that art is only an instrument, an instrument… — Wang Jianwei Copy Share Image
The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Over against any cognition, there is an unknown but knowable reality; but over against all possible cognition, there is only the self-contradictory.… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“Art transcends selfish and obsessive limitations of personality and can enlarge the sensibility of its consumer. It is a kind of goodness… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in… — Terrence Rafferty Copy Share Image
Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
There's an element of realism to it. I immersed myself more in the subject as a young adult. Then I started to… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
Hell, I'd even failed with women. Three wives. Nothing really wrong each time. It all got destroyed by petty bickering. Railing about… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It's sad that today's youth is contemplative of having sex and our role models as well, yet all of our aspiration in… — Rony Flores Mendoza Copy Share Image
It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical,… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
“On the morning appointed for her departure Tess awoke before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I lost all respect for kim when she started the whole nicki copied mess ,she does not copy kim. Nicki is her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Science Fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is going on, what… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic"… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“All I want, oh dear friend of mine, is for you to go out with someone . Do something, even if it's… — Lauren Morrill Copy Share Image
Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
There is a reality to the way the actors play the scenes, given that there is a real, animatronic, moving robot in… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share Image
“People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. An optimist is neither… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers… — Ella Leya Copy Share Image
Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
There are two ways of confronting the country's problems.One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being… — Mir-Hossein Mousavi Copy Share Image
The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism,… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
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