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I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
If you don’t have a plan, you will fail, and you can quote me.” You need a definite plan, it should be… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
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And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A dream inspiring a story is different than placing a description of a dream in a story. When you describe a character's… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
If there are Infinite Dimensions then there would be infinite alternate realities, and if there are infinite alternate realities we would exist… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
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We have been impossible right from the beginning and we must continue to be impossible because we are raising a voice against… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The realities of getting up in the morning with two children and being covered in spit-up and totally filthy make me excited… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
Death is a large form of entertainment, probably the largest. Watching death in different ways is entertaining for us, whether it's a… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
Anyone who dares to speak about an aether is regarded as an ignorant and backward mind and he can only lose his… — Maurice Allais Copy Share Image
Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Why do leaders fail? Isolation and inability to learn. They are afraid to express doubt, admit vulnerability or seek advice from subordinates.… — Robert S. Kaplan Copy Share Image
... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
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Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“[...]to be real--to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from… — Tom McCarthy Copy Share Image
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Whether philosophically you believe in a public subsidization of an arena or a stadium, that's the reality. We can't have professional basketball… — Wally Walker Copy Share Image
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
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