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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it."

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J. Stalin Political Leader
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"Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible."

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Ice T Rapper, Actor
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"A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living."

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Felix Adler Philosopher, Social Reformer
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"The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear."

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Zhuangzi Philosopher
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"Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is."

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Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter
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"...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures."

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Natalie Musician
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"If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Besides, those voices are merely guardians and demons protecting the real treasure, the first thoughts of the mind."

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Natalie Portman Actress, Director, Producer
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"Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not real. What are you doing? Oh, you're really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I'll see you in an hour.'"

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Natalie Portman Actress, Director, Producer
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"I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of political, economic, and social conditions in this country, and our ability in, in a self- improvement program to gain control politically over every community in which we predominate, and also over the economy of that same community as here in Harlem. Instead of all the stores in Harlem being owned by white people, they should be owned and operated by black people."

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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."

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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality."

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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"Every one knows that there are no real forests in England.The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman."

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