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Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives prote...

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Ruskin BondScenes from a Writer's Life

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd nev...

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Sarah DessenWhat Happened to Goodbye

All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest...

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Sarah DessenWhat Happened to Goodbye

So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation.

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions...

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Slavoj ŽižekTarrying with the Negative: Kant

I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

I suppose the best way to tell the story is simply to narrate it, without an effort to carry belief....

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Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutral...

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A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever r...

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Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from som...

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Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effecti...

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Be careful, though.""Aren't I always?""No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know the...

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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

The real war will never get in the books.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, e...

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implemen...

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Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own not a...

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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is ...

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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new defi...

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Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

Real food, I've found, is actually better than dieting.

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care abou...

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My belief is that when you're telling the truth, you're close to God. If you say to God, "I am exhau...

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Anne LamottHelp Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real group...

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It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with the...

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Ammu's tears made everything that had so far seemed unreal, real.

DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood wom...

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Audre LordeZami: A New Spelling of My Name

My real soul...? It’s real only when it’s independent...

You never wanted me to be real. You never wanted anyone to be. But you didn’t want me to show it. Yo...

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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a th...

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B. F. SkinnerContingencies Of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis

He's basically a good man. But he doesn't know me. Any more than he knew that girl that looked after...

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Barack ObamaDreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own exp...

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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to li...

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Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be dr...

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Blaise PascalThe Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out wit...

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Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

I have come to recognize that being trustworthy does not demand that I be rigidly consistent but tha...

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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...

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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Women are the real architects of society.

If a homeless person has a funny sign, he hasn't been homeless for that long. A real homeless person...

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Happiness is only real when shared.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human...

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

There is no question that the Islamic State will be defeated in Mosul the real question is what come...

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My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies ...

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There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple...

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Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on...

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Tesla is becoming a real car company.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herdi...

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Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance ...

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According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is...

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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love ...

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If you are a feminist and are not a vegan, you are ignoring the exploitation of female nonhumans and...

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The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wa...

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Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

I must show the blacksmith and the shopkeeper once more--two years after marriage--time long enough ...

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The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and exist...

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Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after d...

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The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly ...

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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.