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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Martin Luther King Jr.
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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow.

T. S. Eliot
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Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable. -Cyril Connolly
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Ralph Marston
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillor
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -Albert Einstein
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Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Dr. Karl Menninger
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Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

Jane Wagner
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Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. -Alex Haley
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Someone once asked me whether I am an idealist or a dreamer. I'm neither. I consider myself an optimistic realist. I see reality, but I give it the benefit of the doubt.

Kate Miller
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick
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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes. -Henry Kissinger
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Jorge Luis Borges
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Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Chris Marker
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Be critical. Women have the right to say:This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. -Tillie Olsen
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Jane Wagner
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Jean jacques Rousseau
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Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. -Lily Tomlin
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Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Robert J. Ringer
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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Georges Braque
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Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. -Richard Wright
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Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

Hob Broun
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Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Robin Williams
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Reality is something you rise above. -Liza Minnelli
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Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed: No thanks.

Ellen Herman
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When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

Joyce Carol Oates
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I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it. -Mary Chase
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Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality.

Eli Khamarov
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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

John Lennon
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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. -George Bernard Shaw
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