"Excuse me while I light my spliff, Good God I gotta take a lift, From reality I just cant drift, That's why I'm staying with this riff"
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"Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality."
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"The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think."
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"Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived."
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"To argue with reality is to argue with God"
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"Reality is always kinder than your thinking."
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"If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark."
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"We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow."
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"While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries"
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"The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility."
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"Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality."
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"The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen."
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"A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life."
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"What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying"
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"The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic."
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"The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole."
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"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."
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"If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality."
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"All mankind's inner feelings eventually manifest themselves as an outer reality."
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"Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism."
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