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• I'm not a real vocal guy, but sometimes you need to kick someone in the ass.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Guy, Needs, Sometimes

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• The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, United States, Comic

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• The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas treewill bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them.

  Henry Adams

  Beautiful, Dog, Spring

  Henry Adams, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1969). “1892-1918”

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• False fancy brings real misery.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fancy, Misery

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• I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fancy, Anticipation, Misery

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• The ways of living have been rendered vastly easier by a multitude of inventions, by the increasing wealth of the country, by better and more intelligent service; and yet life is by no means easier, but indeed hard. The demands on time, whether real or imagined, have increased in a greater ratio than the supply of facilities for answering them, and as the earth provokingly continues to revolve on its axis just as rapidly as of old, the days are never long enough for all the duties which they bring.

  Anna Brackett

  Country, Mean, Intelligent

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• Only the flowing water is pure and sweet. Only the spinning top and the moving bicycle do not fall over. Rest is not found in irregular and purposeless motion, nor is it stagnation; all real and firm rest is to be sought in harmonious action.

  Anna Brackett

  Sweet, Moving, Fall

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• Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Influence, Byron, Gloomy

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• It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Sycophants, Doe, Flattery

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• Of course, there's been a real debate about where to invest and where to cut, and I'm committed to working with members of both parties to cut our deficits and debt. But we can't simply cut our way to prosperity.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Cutting, Taxation

  "President to Meet with Senate Leaders; Minot Evacuees Can't Go Back Home Yet; Indonesian Workers Banned From Saudi Jobs; TSA Forces 95-Year-Old to Remove Adult Diaper; Bachmann to Declare Bid Monday". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. June 26, 2011.

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• Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Kings, Men, Giving

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• The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Friends, Eye, Glasses

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Sorrow, Rays, Delicacy

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• There is a system of terroristic states-the real terror network-that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades, and which is deeply rooted in the corporate interest and sustaining political-military-financial propaganda mechanisms of the United States and its allies in the Free World.

  Edward S. Herman

  Latin, Military, Past

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• General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly generalized constructions of pure mathematics and the specific theories of the specialized disciplines. Mathematics attempts to organize highly general relationships into a coherent system, a system however which does not have any necessary connections with the "real" world around us. It studies all thinkable relationships abstracted from any concrete situation or body of empirical knowledge.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Lying, Names, Discipline

  "General Systems Theory - The Skeleton of Science". Management Science, Volume 2. No. 3, pp. 197-208, www.panarchy.org. April 1956.

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• Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Death, Shapes

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.462, Book House

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• Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

  Walter Scott

  Greatness, Long, Evil

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• The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Jobs, Mind, Association

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Experience, Illusion, Reality

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4106, Delphi Classics

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• The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Men, Civilization

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.291, Cambridge University Press

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• The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived fromthe very God who bade them be not conscious of it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Conscious, Fountain

  D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.472, Courier Dover Publications

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• The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Eye, Discovery, Mind

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• A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.

  Rajneesh

  Loving Yourself, Men, Firsts

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?

  Benjamin Haydon

  God, Justice, Mind

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.468

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• My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Work, Ideas, Lines

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