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Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
If you're a beautiful Caucasian woman, and you commit a heinous crime, it's like people don't want to acknowledge the reality of your actions.
Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.
Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.
Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.
Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
I am not superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I am juggling a lot of balls in the air? And sometimes some of the balls get dropped.
Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence.
Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire
That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
I wasn't saying that in a sense that I didn't plan on scoring any goals. This won't happen again. It would be nice if it did, but it's reality.
Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.
Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.
Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.
I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.
I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.
Even though the body appears to be material, it is not. In the deeper reality, your body is a field of energy, transformation and intelligence.
It's a reality here. We're a team that at this time of the season, with teams trying to get to the playoffs, it's going to be difficult to win.
So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.
You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.
When you're with a group of semi-psychotic people, you kind of lose track of reality; it's almost like being in some sort of cult or something.
A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough.
It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the Senate will have this language in it.
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.
I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea.
If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!
The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.
I have toured around for 45 years and have experience of night halt at more than 400 districts. And that's why I know the reality of this earth.
As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.
I'm hoping that The Story of Reality will fill in more details for the Christian believer and will create a crisis of faith for the nonbeliever.
Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change.
We're getting close to making our vision a reality. It's exciting to be on the cusp of opening our doors to the public. We're right on schedule.
We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.
If we judged by realities we should give honor not to the rich for the fine clothes they wear but to the poor who are the makers of such things.
The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.