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In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this? — Harry Browne
If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in… — Unknown Author
In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what… — Dan Millman
An affirmation states that a goal is already happening. I'm not crazy about this because, often when we affirm something that is not yet real,… — T. Harv Eker
Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of… — Seneca the Younger
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who… — Ludwig von Mises
Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone,… — John Perry Barlow
The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this. — Ron Paul
To get back to the real substance of all things, you must get back into the thought world. Until one knows that the thought-energy is… — Walter Russell
Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that… — Eleanor Roosevelt
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time… — George Washington Carver
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but… — Albert Einstein
We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing. — James Anthony Froude
The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science is. A problem… — Frederick Soddy
The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I… — Thomas Huxley
But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident. — Richard P. Feynman
The real name for 'science' is magic. — Harlan Ellison
You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which… — Rosalind Franklin
Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real power that gives… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total conduct of men… — Max Wertheimer
[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by… — Martin Gardner
Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God, God… — J I Packer

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