"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws."
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"Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one, perhaps not - for dealing with the difference. The difference itself exists because it exists in their thinking."
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"We're hopeful it won't climb much more than that (10 percent). The reality is we're all looking at the price per gallon of gasoline and heating oil, and even cord wood, and we're seeing prices that are volatile and I don't think anybody can accurately predict what we'll be paying for these commodities in two weeks, let alone two months."
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"I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand."
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"The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality."
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"Fantasies were safe. It was a break from reality. A chance to act on desires for a short period of time."
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"It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it."
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"Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so."
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"This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated; all is concentrated within."
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"Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it."
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"I am in any way glorifying or simplifying prostitution. The reality of prostitutes around the world is so complex. I've tried to focus on the humanity."
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"When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality."
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"I'm very, very serious about what I do. I think there are a lot of people out there sort of thinking it's anybody's game. You know, "You pick up a camera and you make a movie." My experiences over the years have taught me there's a lot more than that to making a film - there's also getting the film seen, and all kinds of complex realities."
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"In terms of threshold, as long as it's based in reality, you can go pretty far, as long as you buy that it's really happening."
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"If we go into white congregations, non-whites will sometimes say it felt like worship never started. It was sort of dead and didn't feel that warmly received. But so - and there are different realities either way, and it makes it difficult for all groups to try and cross boundaries."
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"Companies that get in trouble have a failure to see two realities: market trends and competitor attacks."
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"I joke that I stick with the job because it covers my insurance, but the reality is that my career has always been very important to me."
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"Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special."
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"I think the team will think this was an O.K. year. Some guys had career years, but the reality is that we didn't get it done at the end of the day."
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"The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal violence, an effort to free our own ear from bondage and to occupy the enemy's ear by force. Because all of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others."
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