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  The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

  Charlie Sheen

  Love, Heart, Broken

  FaceBook post by Charlie Sheen from Oct 29, 2016

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• Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Miracle

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.284, Faber & Faber

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• Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

  Meryl Streep

  Play, Skills, Acting

  Barnard College Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

  Bill Nye

  Running, Believe, Keys

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• Without repentance, there is no real progress or improvement in life. Pretending there is no sin does not lessen its burden and pain. Suffering for sin does not by itself change anything for the better. Only repentance leads to the sunlit uplands ofa better life.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Pain, Real, Suffering

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• The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Decision, Looking Forward

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• Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

  Alan Watts

  Growing Up, People, Needs

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• Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Doors, Findings, Knows

  "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey/ Unafraid of the Dark". Documentary, June 2014.

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• We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.

  Angela Thomas

  Pain, Believe, Mean

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  Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Hater, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 04, 2011

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• Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy.

  Bo Lozoff

  Beautiful, Children, Flower

  Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.128, Penguin

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• We are the universe pretending to be individuals.

  Deepak Chopra

  Individualism, Individual, Universe

  "Deepak Chopra Discusses 'How to Know God'". "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 17, 2000.

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• Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.

  Oprah Winfrey

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• Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Women, Rights, Expression

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.41, Vintage

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• There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

  LeCrae

  Together, Weakness, Confessing

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• I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.

  Howard Zinn

  Powerful, Ideas, Roots

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• It's correct that I'm a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn't be in Formula 1. I think it's more honest to act how you really feel than pretending to be the smiling boy who actually isn't in the mood to smile.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Lying, Boys, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.

  Steve Buscemi

  Crazy, Space, Special

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• You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!

  Anna Kendrick

  Football, Teenager, Silly

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• I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

  Amy Winehouse

  Girl, Stupid, Bad Ass

  "What I know about men". Interview with Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2006.

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• I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kings, Thinking, Honor

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• It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

  Nick Hornby

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.128, Penguin

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• After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.

  Tom Perrotta

  Children, People, Choices

  Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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• the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

  Pearl Cleage

  Knowing, Problem, Possibility

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• The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Morality, Hounds

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