"Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about."
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"Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach."
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"I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap - as momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote."
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"Being empowered with the knowledge that you are the creator of your own reality, is the best way to accelerate healing and learning."
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"Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile."
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"Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit."
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"Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge."
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"[T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side."
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"Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water."
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"It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality."
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"Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality."
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"It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be."
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"If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary."
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"I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath."
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"My voice falls into Southern drawl when I am tired, drunk, or in trouble. Too often, my accent is attacked by all three of these realities."
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"Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over."
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"Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress."
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"Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change."
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"Perception precedes reality."
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"I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women."
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