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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.
What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?
When you have growth and development, you have more work to do in the fire business. Thats going to be the reality in the future.
We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.
Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.
Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. Its nauseating, programme after programme.
The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.
Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.
Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.
Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.
When a candidate walks away from a reality show, that's when you know they're serious about being president of the United States.
I think we’re [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.
In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.
Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.
She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.
We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once and for all.
Augmented and virtual reality technologies are the future of smart construction and we are just starting to see the possibilities.
I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.
I don't think that the reality of Cuba is perfect, but it doesn't cleave to the negativity, either, with which some people see it.
In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.
We can't say what enlightenment is, we can't say what it isn't, because these are words and words have nothing to do with reality.
Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.
As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that.
Stop talking about the murders, and we won't know they're happening. And then we can all just live in a bubble that isn't reality.
I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.
If you believe that feeling bad will change a past event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.
Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It's true drama. You really don't know what's going to happen.
It brings me back to reality. The combine doesn't care if you're a senator or not. It breaks down whenever it wants to break down.
Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.
I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.
Enjoy the limitless bliss consciousness here and now. The reality of you lies much beyond your sensory perceptions and boundaries.
Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.
It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality.
The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.
To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.
Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.
For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.
In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.
Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.
Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.