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• The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.

  Mat Johnson

  Real, Problem, Sociopath

  Mat Johnson (2015). “Loving Day: A Novel”, p.6, Spiegel & Grau

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• The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Real, Doe, Resistance

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2015). “Learning to Walk in the Dark: Because God often shows up at night”, p.185, Canterbury Press

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• Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

  Nobu Matsuhisa

  Running, Real, Problem

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• For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as heroically as he likes, and no one laughs at him. It is almost impossible for a man to behave heroically in the cool and ordinary times of peace. But in war anything is allowed him, he is praised and applauded and made much of, as women are excused and allowed for in pregnancy.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Running, Real, War

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• Radical transparency is critical to having an idea meritocracy because it shows what's actually happening without spin and prevents people from maneuvering politically behind each others' backs. It brings problems and weaknesses to the surface and allows people to see how they are dealt with, so it's great for training people on how to deal with real problems.

  Ray Dalio

  Real, Ideas, People

  "Ray Dalio, head of the world's largest hedge fund, explains his succession plan for Bridgewater and how its 'radically transparent' culture is misunderstood". Interview with Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2016.

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• I'm carrying on. I'm making the case for unity, I'm making the case of what Labour can offer to Britain, of decent housing for people, of good secure jobs for people, of trade with Europe and of course with other parts of the world. Because if we don't get the trade issue right we've got a real problem in this country.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Country, Jobs, Real

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Judicial excellence requires an understanding that the law is more than an intellectual game and more than a mental exercise. He or she must recognize that real people with real problems are affected by the decisions rendered by the court. Justice, after all, may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

  Herb Kohl

  Real, Exercise, Law

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I have a real problem when people say, "Well I walked by and you should have seen what was on the computer screen." Well, don't look, sweetie. It's none of your business. Avert your eyes.

  Judith Krug

  Real, Eye, Should Have

  "A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend," by Pamela Mendels, The New York Times, archive.nytimes.com. January 18, 199.

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• What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid's gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances and fidelity for the next four or five decades.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Children, Couple, Real

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• Brexit was not a historical accident, after all. It taught us where the EU's real problems lie. And if we do not solve them, we will not prevent the anti-European currents in many EU countries, but rather encourage them.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Country, Real, Lying

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• The real problem with Donald Trump is, if you engage him, it will only make things worse. It's like - it's a little bit what you were taught as a kid to not engage the bully, because they will continue to pick on you.

  Amy Walter

  Real, Kids, Bully

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.

  Alain de Botton

  Sports, Real, School

  "Office affairs" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.

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• Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.

  John Yarmuth

  Real, Problem, Hypothetical

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• Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.

  Jim Cooper

  Real, Clueless, Home

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• We've got to remember that the core of Christ's plan is to rescue us from sin. Our pain, poverty, and broken hearts are not his ultimate focus. True, he cares about these things, but they're merely symptoms of the real problem.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Pain, Real, Heart

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.

  Garry Winogrand

  Running, Real, Monkeys

  Source: www.zinzin.com

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• One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Association, Problem

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• I don't think people were overmedicated, but I think health care cannot stop in the clinic. If all we do is throw pills and procedures at people after they're already sick and we don't deal with what's making them sick to start with, that's a real problem.

  Jill Stein

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• For many years the stakes were clear. There were the Arabs attacking us and us defending ourselves, so basically there were no real problems [between the United States and Israel]. Now there are many small cells, and each of them can destroy on their own. Some can arrive at New York and kill thousands of people.

  Shimon Peres

  New York, Real, Israel

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that are not only real problems, but that are manageable, solvable problems if you look at them in an individual fashion, and lumping them under the umbrella of something mysterious and vague, which makes it very, very difficult to address what's going on.

  Emily Barton

  Fashion, Block, Real

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Although we refer to the International Criminal Court, the real problem is the prosecutor, because it's the prosecutor who decides who to investigate and what cases to bring. This court fundamentally embodied a potential for abuse of governmental power that I felt was inconsistent with being a free person - and [it was] inconsistent for a free country like the United States to subscribe to it.

  John Bolton

  Country, Real, Abuse

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People say to me, "When did you come out?" But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I'd found in an attic, saying, "I am a beautiful princess!" What my parents thought of this, I don't know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.

  Quentin Crisp

  Beautiful, Mother, Real

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Pain, Real

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The real problem is that "limited government" invariably leads to unlimited government. If history is to be any guide and current experience is to be any guide, we in the United States 200 years ago started out with the notion of limited government - virtually no government interference - and we now have a massive quasi-totalitarian government.

  Murray Bookchin

  Real, Years, Government

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• Our problem in Quebec is our summer is so short that we can't wear bathing suits, whatever, what kind of bathing suit. So I mean, we have this debate with political parties involved whether we should forbid the burkini yes or no, and this was in the media, you know, front page for days and days and days. This is wildly exaggerated. And people that don't live for instance in Montreal, where they don't have a diverse population, they think this is a real problem.

  Andre Pratte

  Summer, Real, Party

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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