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• The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a line around the incomprehensible largeness of reality and wrestle it into something learnable and manipulable. Existence is devoid of plot, theme, and most of all moral.

  Charles Stross

  Real, Order, Brain

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• Most elected officials cling to their ideological biases, despite the real-world facts that disprove their theories time and again. Most have no common sense, and most never acknowledge that they were wrong.

  Lawrence Kudlow

  Real, Common Sense, Political

  "Barney Frank Comes Home to the Facts". Article by Larry Kudlow, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 21, 2010.

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• Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Jobs, Real

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• Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in the real world.

  Thomas Hazlett

  Real, Political, Done

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• The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group.

  Edward Sapir

  Real, Groups, World

  Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.161, Walter de Gruyter

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• In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

  Camille Paglia

  Real, Smart, Skills

  Playboy Interview, May 1995.

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• The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.

  Kingsley Amis

  Disappointment, Real, Loss

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• You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate.

  Arthur Rudolph

  Real, Risk, Trying

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• When evaluating a model, at least two broad standards are relevant. One is whether the model is consistent with the data. The other is whether the model is consistent with the 'real world.'

  Kenneth A. Bollen

  Real, Data, Two

  Kenneth A. Bollen (2014). “Structural Equations with Latent Variables”, p.70, John Wiley & Sons

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• I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV.

  Al Roker

  Real, Kids, Successful

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• The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

  Jules Shear

  Funny, Real, School

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• When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique.

  Melissa Bean

  Real, Unique, Technology

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• Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world

  Eric Thomas

  Real, Math, Negative

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• Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

  David Suzuki

  Real, Brain, World

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• Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion, we all have different jobs. Some of us are artists, some of us are business people, some of us are scientists. But in the real world that lies beyond all this, we all have the same job: to minister to human hearts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jobs, Real, Lying

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a trophy for showing up.
  
  Friends, we're talking about leading the country, not playing on a third-grade soccer team!
  
  I realize this is the man who got a Nobel Peace Prize for what he would potentially do, but in the real world, you get the prize for producing something, not just promising it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Soccer, Country, Real

  Mike Huckabee's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.

  Ross Martin

  Real, College, Class

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• At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.

  Todd Skinner

  Real, Climbing, Focus

  Todd Skinner (1993). “Modern Rock Climbing: Sport Climbing and Top Roping Beyond the Basics”, Ics Books

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• Nothing makes me happier than working with real people in the real world.

  Tim Gunn

  Real, People, World

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• Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world.... It was this vision that gave him his great power, for when he went into a fight, he had only to think of that world to be in it again, so that he could go through anything and not be hurt

  Black Elk

  Hurt, Horse, Crazy

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• The imagination is the most real world that we know
  because we each know it first hand.

  John Frusciante

  Real, Hands, Imagination

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• Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.

  Tahir Shah

  Real, Important, Stories

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• The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Mean, Political

  "Aliens Cause Global Warming". Caltech Michelin's Lecture at the California Institute of Technology, January 17, 2003.

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• It is time to face real world, even if it is harder and painful. I'd rather fly and crash, than just snuggle and sleep.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Real, Sleep, World

  "One Night @ the Call Center". Book by Chetan Bhagat, 2005.

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• When you’re in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you’re not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you’re not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn’t failing; it’s getting too comfortable.

  Drew Houston

  Real, Mistake, School

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