"The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing."
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"Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit."
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"A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce."
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"Suppose you are drinking a cup of tea. When you hold your cup, you may like to breathe in, to bring your mind back to your body, and you become fully present. And when you are truly there, something else is also there - life, represented by the cup of tea. In that moment you are real, and the cup of tea is real. You are not lost in the past, in the future, in your projects, in your worries. You are free from all of these afflictions. And in that state of being free, you enjoy your tea. That is the moment of happiness, and of peace."
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"If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love"
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"In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us."
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"When we say, "I take refuge in the Buddha," we should also understand that "The Buddha takes refuge in me," because without the second part the first part is not complete. The Buddha needs us for awakening, understanding, and love to be real things and not just concepts. They must be real things that have real effects on life. Whenever I say, "I take refuge in the Buddha," I hear "the Buddha takes refuge in me.""
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"Miles Davis had been in retirement for five or six years and he was coming out of retirement and he was looking for young guys. Somebody gave him my name and he called me and said, "Can you show up at Columbia Studios in two hours?" I'm like, "Whoa, is this the real Miles Davis?" He's like, "Yeah." So I showed up and yeah, it was intimidating, but music is so important to me that the intimidation was all before the notes started."
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"You're all Buddhas, pretending not to be. You're all the Christ, pretending not to be. You're all Atman, pretending not to be. You're all love, pretending not to be. You're all one, pretending not to be. You're all Gurus, pretending not to be. You're all God, pretending not to be. When you're ready to stop pretending, then you're ready to just be the real you. That's your home."
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"It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books."
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"Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real."
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"I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me!"
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"Here’s the deal: School is not authentic because it ends. It’s not true, it’s not real. Our learning will never end."
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"The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people."
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"Just be real with yourself right now. We beat ourself."
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"The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply."
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"It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me."
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"What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable."
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"The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live."
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"The Kosovo campaign was a just and necessary war. And I believe that Blair - of whom I have many criticisms - in this case showed real determination in conducting it."
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