We’ve collected the best Real Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Phillip Sweet, Auguste Comte, Robert E. Lee, T. S. Eliot, Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Use them as an inspiration.
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Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.
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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
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Fear is real, but so is love.
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And I’ve always said, ‘If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary.’ We need to be able to understand that if we’re going to make real progress.
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When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet… to not feel like you have to do something… I don’t think you’re human.
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Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it’s footwork. I constantly work on it, and it’s a never-ending process.
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Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.
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I believe activism is the true source of change in the world. Pushing to change social structures in communities that you are a part of is critical for making real lasting change.
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The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.
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Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
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Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It’s the federal government and the Justice Department. It’s a fraud; it’s a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.
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When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.
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Aliens are definitely real.
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Everybody don’t have a Bentley in real life.
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The beauty of any conspiracy theory is that because it can’t be proved, that just makes it more ‘real.’ It’s not a question of believing or not believing, really; it’s more a question of just accepting a series of probabilities that lead to an undeniable conclusion.
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Fear doesn’t exist in football, especially for Real Madrid.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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The only real valuable thing is intuition.
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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.
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I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
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Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
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An experimental idea doesn’t have to be separated from a mainstream context. The really exciting thing is where those two things are together. That’s where you can get real change.
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I am a jovial person in real life.
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The real shame about the ending of the Guns N’ Roses when I got kicked out wasn’t just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together.
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Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
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Sexual harassment and gender discrimination is real, it’s far more pervasive than I think people have been willing to acknowledge.
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I’m a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I’m interested in being real.
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Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.
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Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one’s self by entering into the real sense of things.
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The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I’m going to work for it – even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
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I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
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I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?
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Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
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I received many offers – namely from Real Madrid, Manchester United, and Milan – but I preferred the tranquillity of playing for Fiorentina.
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I always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have gone into real estate.
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It’s challenging to take on something else that is not you and make it very real and have others be able to associate with it. It’s wonderful to provoke thought.
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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
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I have a problem when people say something’s real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I’ve always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.
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When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.
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Every one has her own love life. Every one has a dream to get a perfect life partner. But this is not so easy in real life. In fact, one doesn’t love; it happens.
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If you want to be a real human being – a real woman, a real man – you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, ‘Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.’
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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It’s real easy to fall.
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Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It’s the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that’s the real reason that the relationships continue.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it’s a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
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The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
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Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot’s in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
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The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
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When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody’s right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
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Real religion is no religion at all.
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It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.
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I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.
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I am not a perfectionist. Perfection doesn’t exist in real life. It’s a wrong title for me.
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If you’re not trying to be real, you don’t have to get it right. That’s art.
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I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.
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The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.
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Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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Walking in the mountains helps me unwind, but it also reminds me in a painful way that the real beauty in life is nature and animals, and that the human race, in all its arrogance, is intent on destroying it.
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The real minimum wage is zero.
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When you think about it, giving up your ‘real’ personality is a small price to pay for the richness of ‘living happily ever after‘ with an actual man!
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Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn’t have a real method, there’s a great deal of anxiety over what it is.
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There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe.
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Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
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Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity – two magic potions in themselves – the very essence of laughter – the unrestrained emotion within us!
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The on-stage Gracie may look poised, but the real Gracie is shy, a little self-conscious, and, before every performance of my life, panicky.
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I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.
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I enjoy every moment of playing for Real Madrid and naturally, I give it everything I’ve got. I do all I can to make sure the fans enjoy the football and that Madrid are always at the top, which is where they belong.
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Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress.
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At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
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It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it’s great to be alive!
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I’m a real big celebrity. I’m this megastar.
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What interests me is the connection between maths and the real world.
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Being bold in the shirt of Real Madrid is not easy.
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Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
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But if inventions have increased man’s power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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We’re Real Madrid – and being successful is part of our DNA.
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The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
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Ever since the economic crisis in 2008, millions of people have accepted cuts in all sorts of things – from real wages and living standards to benefits and hospital care – without any real opposition. The cuts may be right, or they may be stupid – but the astonishing thing is how no-one really challenges them.
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Whoever says Real Madrid are dead is always proved wrong in the long term.
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If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.
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What gives you real power is when you know your power. And I feel quite powerful.
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The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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There’s a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
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My Mom and Dad always told me to not act on emotion, act on what is real. When you’re mad don’t do something wrong because you’re mad.
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The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
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Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.
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The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
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My emotion is real, and my everyday life is filled with the same feeling.
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The Internet is such… it’s so not real. But it’s big and it feels big when you’re on it.
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There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.
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At Real Madrid you have to fight until the end.
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I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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Music took me from a real dark place to a real bright one.
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I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God’s hands, and I am very happy about that!
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
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To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.
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I do not want the things I do to be easy and predictable. I want them to be real.
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To put yourself in another’s place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.
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It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism – because that’s mainly what I’ve been exposed to – was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don’t know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.
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At Real Madrid there is always pressure to win.
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That’s what all art’s about – a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can’t in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really – to do something that’s just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
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So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It’s not Israel. It’s these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.
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In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you’re a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave.
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In my opinion, the only real asset one has is one’s reputation, right? I mean, any company and institution can go belly up at any time. But if you have a good reputation, you know, you can usually find somebody who can – who thinks they can use what you have to offer.
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The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don’t want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
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Every revolution has its counterrevolution – that is a sign the revolution is for real.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
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Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
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Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.
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I don’t like to talk hypotheticals. I deal with the real life situations. I treat every day as a blessing.
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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
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I don’t think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don’t give mathematics a real chance.
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I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it’s all about color because the weather is so gray, and in that cold light they look beautiful.
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Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.
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What’s real? What’s not? That’s what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.
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Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
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I don’t want to forgive myself. That’s why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you’re guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it – how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
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Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.
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The more real and genuine we are about ourselves, the more others will know that there is no shame in struggling, or feeling low, or anxious or having bad days – we all have them.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things… it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
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Global warming is real – it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.
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Real living is living for others.
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Being a defender of Real Madrid means being able to make very few mistakes.
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The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.
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The things we hate about ourselves aren’t more real than things we like about ourselves.
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
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‘Pathological liar’ is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can’t take anything they say at face value. And you can’t, you know, fill in their personality. You don’t know what’s real and what’s not.
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Focus on solving real problems and not on making money. There will be enough takers for your solutions. You will help make lives of some people better, and money will follow.
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I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
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There are the things that are out in the open, and there are the things that are hidden. The real world has more to do with what is hidden.
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I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.
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In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
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Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It’s easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it’s time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.
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Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
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When I was young we weren’t even allowed to speak our own languages in school. They called it ‘vernacular,’ as if only English was the real tongue.
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Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
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I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
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It’s better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn’t have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.
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I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.
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When I played Robert Howard in ‘The Whole Wide World‘, I was struggling with it. There’s this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there’s constant shame: ‘Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?’
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The word ‘romance,’ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
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When you play in a great club like Real Madrid, it’s hard to stay here.
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it’s incredibly romantic.
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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
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I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a novel that was the novel I wanted to write, and got a couple of good reviews but no real traction. I had no idea how to get a job in TV.
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Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement – one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.
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In a perfect dream, things would be set exactly the way you would want them. But I think it’s more interesting that in real life, things aren’t exactly the way you planned.
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I punch a lot of guys on set. It’s much easier than in real life as your hands don’t hurt afterwards. The key is that you miss.
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone’s idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.
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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
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One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.
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Erosion of faith and trust in government – that is the real problem that confronts us.
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Time is a mind construct. It’s not real.
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The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.
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If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts – but it’s not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it’s any better – but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.
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Real life happens. Sometimes it’s messy. Sometimes it doesn’t work.
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There’s something special about racing in real streets. The ‘artificial’ circuits have a certain sameness to them. But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own – Barcelona, Monaco, and now Long Beach.
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And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.
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Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
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How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.
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We need to hear stories from older women. There’s a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they’re silenced.
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When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.
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A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call ‘Daddy.’
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The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism.
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I like to show my ability on the field. I’m not one to show off with words. I’m really looking forward to the chance. I’m a calm goalkeeper, and above all, I’ve got a real desire to win. When I get on the pitch, I give everything for the team, everything for the shirt.
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
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Husbands, recognize your wife’s intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don’t be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually.
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If God is real, and he did give a piece of Himself to us, it is our brain.
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I don’t like to talk about typical things in my music – my music is more about real life situations.
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My teacher told me I’d never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness – and that can make me laugh.
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Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.
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I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life… But I’m not a romantic. I’m just up-front. I like to be a part of something real, not make-believe. I tell women to tell me the truth, to just lay it out. Let me be the judge and decide if I want you around or not. Let me have my choice.
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You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
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When it comes to Real Madrid, anything’s possible.
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People say they hate having fake people around, but when you keep it real, they hate you even more. People don’t like the truth.
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Prosperity or egalitarianism – you have to choose. I favor freedom – you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
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When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants – that that’s our purpose.
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I don’t know what the future holds. All I know is, I’m good today. Real good.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.
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Imagine people calling you to find out if you’re dead. I’ve led a real crazy life at times, and I’ve had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.
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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
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Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?
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To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients‘ best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.
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Coming to Australia, it was just really magical for me. It just had the wow factor of a different sort of place and, more so, just being with a family that wanted to love me and to have me, because I knew back then, before coming to Australia, there was no way of getting back home or finding my real family.
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I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done really well in that regard compared to other sports.
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I believe that the real expression of your religious beliefs is shown in the daily pattern of your life, in what you contribute to your surroundings and what you take away without infringing on the rights of other people.
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Global warming is a real threat to our communities, to everybody, to everything.
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To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential… With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.
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I’m a real man. I can suffer.
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I’m looking for the unexplainable connection and spark – real, true love.
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If you listen to me, it’s real stories. It’s catchy and something you can relate to.
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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Everybody can relate to being real or true. Somehow, someway, you want to be real and true.
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I don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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Tesla is becoming a real car company.
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I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.
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There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
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What I’ve enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn – I love it!
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A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.
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Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.
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I’ve had an unbelievable life. I’ve been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I’m from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, ‘That’s real work.’
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If I receive a phone call from Real Madrid, I won’t answer.
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
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Pro wrestling is not fake; it’s sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we’re not going to insult anyone’s intelligence – there is a predetermined winner. It’s just the fans don’t know who it is, and that’s what makes it so intriguing.
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There’s only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe – because I’ve done a little of this myself – pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
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I try to keep it real. I don’t have time to worry about what I’m projecting to the world. I’m just busy being myself.
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The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.
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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
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In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.
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I went to boarding school in the country, so there’s no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 – it was insane. If you earn my friendship, you are my family, and I’ll do anything for you.
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I think I’ve got a real love thing going. I love people, I love life, and I love nature, and I can’t see why other people can’t be like that.
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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
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The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
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Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
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The concept of The ‘Most Beautiful Moment in Life’, that was chapter one for us; it feels like that because we were starting from the bottom, but on this concept, ‘Love Yourself‘, we started to talk about some brighter things, like the real things in life.
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I think, at the end of the day, acting and activism are both about empathy. You’re trying to get people to see other people as real and human. And to care.
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Control is not real, and I’m really understanding that every day. It’s about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.
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Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
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The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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The real question is: if you knew there was a god, would you behave any differently? And if the answer is yes, then perhaps you should assume there is.
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You don’t have to be too bright to get into real estate.
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Listen, ‘real’ women are the reason the fashion industry exists.
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People are apprehensive about finding ‘The Leftovers‘ funny because it’s such a dark circumstance, but I think, really, what the show is about is examining how different people deal with loss. There are elements of humour and levity and irony in that… just like in real life.
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Even paranoids have real enemies.
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There’s something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
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They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don’t remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.
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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
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Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
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Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?
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There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
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It’s time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain’t working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
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I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren’t working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.
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We live in a disposable, ‘cast-off and throw-away’ society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.
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Coming up with ideas isn’t hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you’ve made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who’s been sent away to boarding school can understand that.
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I like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
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I’ve been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.
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A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
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In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.
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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
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When you meet your best friend in real life, or you meet your soulmate, you just know it, and you feel it.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
528
I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
529
In sports, you simply aren’t considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
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You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.
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Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry.
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My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it’s okay to be sincere; it’s okay to be yourself; it’s okay to be real.
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All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
