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• Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Real, Ideas, Tangible

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist”, p.69, VM eBooks

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• I'm kind of a scaredy cat - I don't watch a ton of them. I mean, I started reaching this script at night and had to wait until the next morning to finish it so it would be light out. It really scared me. The scary movies I like are The Others and Pan's Labyrinth - they're so scary but they're about real things, and hopefully this is too.

  Keri Russell

  Morning, Real, Mean

  "Keri Russell: I'm A Scaredy Cat". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.

  Jack White

  Real, Artist, Water

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• It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.

  Eric Maisel

  Beauty, Jobs, Real

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Fortune is no real thing.
  But men who cannot bear what comes to them
  In Nature's way, give their own characters
  The name of Fortune.

  Menander

  Real, Character, Men

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• You can access that on many levels and the human spirit and the human mind responds to those themes because they recognise the veracity of them. That they are real things. Sometimes it even goes beyond logic, it's just a sense of something.

  Mel Gibson

  Real, Mind, Levels

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• For me, luxury isn't just the real thing. It's also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It's a game. You have to be luxurious nude.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Real, Games, Luxury

  Interview with Rebecca Voight, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2008.

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• Okay well - no that is a very real thing seven-year-olds asking for BlackBerrys and cell phones and things like that. And that's one of the things I love most about the show [The Starter Wife] is the social satire.

  Debra Messing

  Real, Phones, Cells

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Real, Taste, Electrons

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Citizen of the Galaxy”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• I truly believe that we each have a House of Belonging waiting for us. Waiting to be found, waiting to be built, waiting to be renovated, waiting to be cleaned up. Waiting to rescue us. Waiting for the real thing: a grown-up, romantic, reciprocal relationship.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Real, Believe, Waiting

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• I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.

  Conor Oberst

  Mom, Real, Unconditional Love

  "Conor Oberst: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 22, 2008.

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• What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about the real thing is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary.

  Douglas Lain

  Memories, Real, Ideas

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• I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real thing? The non-phony? In Los Angeles? I am not so sure.

  Aviv Nevo

  Real, Done, Married

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• As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Men, Long

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• Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems that are in place - people talk about gerrymandering and the money that's in politics, this is a real thing, a real effect - and it's hard for climate change-denying legislators to get voted out. But I predict it will happen.

  Bill Nye

  Real, People, Climate

  "Bill Nye tackles climate change, solutions in new book Unstoppable". Associated Press Interview, www.cbc.ca. November 11, 2015.

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• When we say, "I take refuge in the Buddha," we should also understand that "The Buddha takes refuge in me," because without the second part the first part is not complete. The Buddha needs us for awakening, understanding, and love to be real things and not just concepts. They must be real things that have real effects on life. Whenever I say, "I take refuge in the Buddha," I hear "the Buddha takes refuge in me."

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Understanding, And Love

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.25, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Real, Sky, Want

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• One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Real, World, Diagrams

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• According to quantum field theory, fields alone are real. They are the substance of the universe and not 'matter'. Matter is simply the momentary manifestation of interacting fields which, intangible and insubstantial as they are, are the only real things in the universe.

  Gary Zukav

  Real, Unity, Substance

  Gary Zukav (1979). “The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics”, Bantam

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• Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

  Walt Kelly

  Dog, Real, Looks

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• Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Running, Real, Giving

  Richard Paul Evans (1997). “The Letter”

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• The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

  Mark Twain

  Country, Real, Watches

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.100, Createspace Independent Pub

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• It's not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I'm an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doesn't think about any of this stuff. Marilyn Manson is the most real thing that can come from me.

  Marilyn Manson

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

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• If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Real, Practice, Splits

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.67, Penguin

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• The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

  Pema Chodron

  Real, Who We Are, Renounce

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

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