"We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream."
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"Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality."
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"Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it."
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"The dream has to be translated into reality."
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"For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated."
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"It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life."
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"People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality there is no such thing as a stressor. Why not? Because nothing has the inherent power to provoke stress."
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"I am so glad I was writing while on my last book tour, which was really meta, but I think a fascinating look inside the reality of what that whole madness is about."
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"I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network's chairman. She encouraged me to start a blog. I wrote behind-the-scenes gossip about 'Battle of the Network Reality Stars,' the first show I took on as head of current programming."
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"It's just the way we've chosen to deal with it. What's there to talk about The reality is that we're undermanned in a lot of areas. We're in the best league in the country. We don't have to read the paper to know that all the teams we play are quality teams."
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"All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation."
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"The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream."
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"The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems."
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"No matter what your dream is, you can make that dream a reality, ... If you dream about being a millionaire, you can be that. All you have to do is study and be smart."
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"Look, I'm an immigrant, so I know what it is like to dream about coming to America and then to get here and be able to make your dreams a reality, ... Of course, there are millions of people who want to come here. Let's help them, let's find a legal way t"
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"I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good."
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"Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing."
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"Catastrophic damage from climate-driven extreme weather is now an annual reality. The cost of not dealing with it will be much greater than if we try to pre-empt some of those disaster cleanups by actually investing in the shift now."
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"An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something."
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"When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion."
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