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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
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"This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man."

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Erik Parker Artist
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"The things Nas' Illmatic was saying were sometimes hard realities but it was done on such a high level, I felt I could point to him as a representative. Someone who put my struggle and my worldview into poetry."

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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker
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"All those statistics that you are gathering about your own experiences and about others are only about how somebody has flowed Energy. It isn't about any hard fast reality."

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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
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"The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it."

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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
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"Generally speaking, that's good drama - the marriage plot or the tragedy - but the reality of women's lives is that most of us don't get what we wanted, and most of us find ways to have really interesting lives anyway."

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
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"I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any."

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Dan Wells Author
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"There are some things more important than ourselves - more important than the limits of the present, and the whims of the now. There is a future to build and protect. And if we're going to make that future as reality, we have to stop fighting among ourselves. We have to end dissent whenever we find it. We have to trust one another again."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, but we are connected; not in the trivial ways that astrology promises, but in the deepest ways."

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