"The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope"
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"Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well."
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"You cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there."
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"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by."
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"In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth."
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"An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality."
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"I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly."
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"One does not become fully human painlessly."
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"Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit."
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"If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people."
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"It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart."
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"Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life."
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"If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go after it. If I go after it I am going after something which is the known, projected by me; by my own mind."
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"Physicians are many in title but very few in reality."
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"Act as if what you intend to manifest in life is already a reality. Eliminate thoughts of conditions, limitations, or the possibility of it not manifesting. If left undisturbed in your mind and in the mind of intention simultaneously, it will germinate in the physical world."
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"What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy.""
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"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead."
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"I paint my own reality."
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"The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality."
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"When we are angry we are blind to reality. Anger may bring us a temporary burst of energy, but that energy is blind and it blocks the part of our brain that distinguishes right from wrong. To deal with our problems, we need to be practical and realistic. If we are to be realistic, we need to use our human intelligence properly, which means we need a calm mind."
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