"Unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate."
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"Reality can be beaten with enough imagination."
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"The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage."
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"God can never be close. God can never be close because it would mean that there is some place where God is not. God is infinite. We cannot exist outside of the infinite. Therefore, God is our Reality."
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"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."
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"Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality."
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"The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge."
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"The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more."
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"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."
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"Applause waits on success."
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"Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me."
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"You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to focus on reality. If you don't have the cast of mind, you're destined for failure even if you have a high I.Q."
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"Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean."
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"We see this as a test of their ability to face reality."
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"Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs."
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"Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted."
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"Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality."
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"Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything."
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"The present is the only reality and the only certainty."
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"The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream."
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