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• It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Running, Fun, Long

  Sheldon B. Kopp (1985). “Even a Stone Can be a Teacher: Learning and Growing from the Experiences of Everyday Life”, Tarcher

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• There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Crush, Ideas, Rising Up

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America: 1638-1870”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

  Paula Wall

  Funny, Color, People

  Paula Wall (2010). “The Rock Orchard: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,--and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages,--it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Running, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Software engineering is the establishment and use of sound engineering principles to obtain economically software that is reliable and works on real machines efficiently.

  Friedrich L. Bauer

  Engineering, Sound, Principles

  "Software Engineering" by Friedrich L. Bauer in "Information Processing: Proceedings of the IFIP Congress, 1971" (p. 71), 1972.

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• Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship

  Anne Bronte

  Intimate, Acquaintance, Real Friends

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.315, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.

  Dean Koontz

  Gun, Men, Knives

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.760, Bantam

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• In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.

  Dean Koontz

  People, World, Accepting

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Good Guy”, p.147, Bantam

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• It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way that real-life conversation seldom is.

  Philip Gerard

  Moving, Writing, People

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• If the ecological crisis, for example, is to be solved and if we are to promote genuine justice and thus bring real peace to the planet-and with it the possibility of improving lives on every level, not just economically, socially, and politically, but spiritually, psychologically, and intellectually-then, just on a practical level, we need to have all of the religions working together.

  Wayne Teasdale

  Justice, Working Together, Example

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• My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.

  Christina Baldwin

  Travel, Journey, Europe

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• God created the angels to serve Him and his people. If there is anything we can learn from the Bible about angels, it's that they are real. Angels exist.

  Gary Kinnaman

  Angel, People, Ifs

  Gary Kinnaman (1994). “Angels Dark and Light”

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• Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Racism, Mind, Boards

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• I think intellectual property is more like land, and copyright violation is more like trespass. Even though you don't take anything away from the landowner when you trespass, most people understand and respect the laws that make it illegal. The real crime in copyright violation is not the making of the copies, it's the expropriation of the creator's right to control the creation.

  Brad Templeton

  Thinking, Law, Land

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• There is a very real and critical danger that unrestrained public discussion of cryptologic matters will seriously damage the ability of this government to conduct signals intelligence and the ability of this government to carry out its mission of protecting national security information from hostile exploitation.

  Bobby Ray Inman

  Government, Information, Matter

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• Just as we need to encourage women to test life's many options, we need to acknowledge real limits of energy and resources. It would be pointless and cruel to prescribe role combination for every woman at each moment of her life. Life has its seasons. There are moments when a woman ought to invest emotionally in many different roles, and other moments when she may need to conserve her psychological energies.

  Faye J Crosby

  Women, May, Tests

  Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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• Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  True Love, Falling In Love, Book

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• That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal and they expect to profit from his songs. So what if he is a better singer than a songwriter; let's put him in a room with a real songwriter. Something great is bound to come...except very often nothing great comes out of such contrived match-ups. Nobody knows where a great song comes from, and that's why so many writers credit the Lord as a co-writer (though I notice they never offer Him half the writer's royalties) when they come up with a real gem.

  Michael Kosser

  Song, Writing, Artist

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• Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.

  James A. Garfield

  Party, Issues, Leader

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.586, Best Books on

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• The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

  Harold Geneen

  Art, Smell, Facts

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• It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.

  Joseph Stalin

  Jobs, Home, Liberty

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• Real improvement is of slow growth only.

  Seneca the Younger

  Growth, Improvement, Slow Growth

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• Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity, the myth of equality can never become real. Far more than a hollow promise of future opportunity for their children, parents need jobs, income, and services. And children whose backgrounds have stunted their sense of the future need to be taught by example that they are good for more than they dared dream.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Dream, Jobs, Children

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes easier to tolerate the frustrations of the real world and to accede to the demands of reality if one can restore himself at intervals in a world where the deepest wishes can achieve imaginary gratification.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Frustration, Imagination

  "The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood". Book by Selma Fraiberg, 1959.

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• The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

  Hugh Masekela

  America, Trying, Culture

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