Real Quotes - Page 27

• The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Hands, People

  "Bob Dylan discusses his latest album 'Together Through Life'". The Monterey County Herald Interview, www.montereyherald.com. August 19, 2010.

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• Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Obedience

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.21, SCM Press

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• God offers authentic LOVE. His devotion is the real deal. But He won't give you the genuine until you surrender the imitations.

  Max Lucado

  Giving, Surrender, Devotion

  Max Lucado (2012). “A Love Worth Giving Deluxe Edition: Living in the Overflow of God's Love”, p.52, Harper Collins

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• Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

  William Godwin

  Desire, Study, Mockery

  William Godwin (1797). “The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays”, p.78

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• If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is more real ..." and the "Ubi nihil vales ..." both already in Murphy and neither very rational.

  Samuel Beckett

  Would Be, Departure, Study

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Calder Publications Limited

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• True gospel authority, the authority to heal and renew things and people, is not finally found in a hierarchical office, a theological argument, a perfect law, or a rational explanation. The Crucified revealed to the world that the real power that changes people and the world is an inner authority that comes from people who have lost, let go, and are re-found on a new level.

  Richard Rohr

  Letting Go, Law, People

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• Our personal power is found in the force of our thoughts ? it is our real strength.

  Robin Sieger

  Personal Development, Found, Force

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• The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.

  Samuel Beckett

  Two, Evil, Boredom

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• Once you develop confidence in your own ability, you'll be able to make a real contribution to creating a better world. Self-confidence is very important. Not in the sense of blind pride, but as a realistic awareness of what you can do. As human beings we can transform ourselves by our good qualities and reducing our faults. Our intelligence enables us to judge what is good from what is harmful.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Confidence, Pride, Creating

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• There is one Cosmic Essence, all-pervading, all-knowing, all-powerful. This nameless formless essence can be approached by any name, any form, any symbol that suites the taste of the individual. Follow your religion, but try to understand the real purpose behind all of the rituals and traditions, and experience that Oneness.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Powerful, Essence, Names

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• Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Focus, Promise

  "Obama ventures into swamp, and enemy political territory, to deliver Earth Day message". www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2015.

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• It means joining with allies to deploy renewable energy technologies -- both at home and around the world -- to confront the very real and present danger of potentially irreversible climate change.

  Bernie Sanders

  Change, Mean, Home

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• The message is resonating, not just in Wisconsin, but all over America, the people are sick and tired of establishment politics, establishment economics. They want real change.

  Bernie Sanders

  Change, Tired, America

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• Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.

  Tom Robbins

  People, Contradictory, Rate

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.141, Bantam

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• A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies and rumps of underemployed plastic surgeons.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Years, Purpose, Might

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• All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as
  equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to
  discover to you.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Blaise Pascal (1961). “Thoughts”

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• In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find
  their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.

  Blaise Pascal

  Strong, Kings, Taken

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.382, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words.

  Mary Jo Weaver

  Names, Long, Desire

  Mary Jo Weaver (1993). “Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Great potential for personal empowerment can be found in attending to our awareness of global problems and to our understanding of how they connect with each other and with our personal lives. The process of naming the danger, saying aloud that the threats to life on earth are real, moves us from the numbness of denial to the aliveness that makes action possible.

  Sarah Connor

  Moving, Numbness, Understanding

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• Not all the monsters have fangs.

  Jack London

  Real Life, Monsters, Fangs

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• The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mind, Danger, Representation

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• Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.

  Pope Francis

  Life, Men, Doe

  "Pope Francis Rails Against ‘Throwaway Culture’ Of Globalization" by James MacKenzie, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2015.

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• ...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Our World, Way, Sun

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.269, Kshetra Books

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• A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Men, Air

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1485, Delphi Classics

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• The genetics of autism are real, but there are also environmental triggers.

  Elizabeth Emken

  Autism, Environmental, Genetics

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