"The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality."
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"Engineers turn dreams into reality."
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"In science we must be interested in things, not in persons."
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"Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit. As an archetype, number becomes not only a psychic factor, but more generally, a world-structuring factor. In other words, numbers point to a background reality in which psyche and matter are no longer distinguishable."
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"Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance."
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"We are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do nothing but watch those shadows passing on the back wall - were convinced that those shadows were their one and only reality. I see a profound similarity to all this in the epoch we're now living in. We no longer live simply through images: we live through images that don't even exist, which are the result not of physical projection but of pure virtuality."
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"Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer."
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"Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest."
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"It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality."
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"The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak."
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"What others say and do is a projection of their own reality."
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"We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers."
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"Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality."
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"The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!"
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"I’ve had many, you know, happy ending sleepovers’in my early youth — my period of exploration. I think that’s essential. Anyone who hasn’t had a gay moment is probably trying to avoid some confrontation with a reality in their life."
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"Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy."
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"When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler."
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"It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well."
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"The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us."
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"I'm more determined than ever that my husband's dream will become a reality."
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