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I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success of our personal lives and… — Mary Kay Ash
To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Good-Bye is an easy word to say but try saying it to a friend. If I never knew you, I'd be safe, but half as… — Pocahontas
When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych… — Lois Lowry
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and… — Kevin Costner
I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory. — Sylvia Earle
Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by… — Baron d'Holbach
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them… — William Hazlitt
You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last.… — James Garner
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. — Walter Lippmann
You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin — Laura Dern
The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real… — Thomas Carlyle
You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the… — Paul Newman
I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me. — George Santayana
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist! — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.… — Clarence Day
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. — Hermann Hesse
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that. — Mark Twain
Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the… — George Bernard Shaw
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection… — George Santayana
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. — Alexander Smith
Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of a god or… — Theodore Dreiser
Why should I hate someone on the basis of their religion, when I can take a little time to get to know them and hate… — Dennis Miller
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired. — George Santayana

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