"The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know."
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"People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still."
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"You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing."
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"The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share."
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"In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations."
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"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it."
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"He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave."
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"Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born."
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"He lives most life whoever breathes most air."
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"So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius."
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"The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals."
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"Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations."
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"Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it."
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"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed."
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"In a crisis, give help first and then advice."
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"Because the body is the end product of intelligence and how that intelligence shapes your reality will shape the reality of the body."
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"I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality."
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"Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality."
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"People who believe their unquestioned thoughts cannot see what is obvious and directly in front of their faces at all times, because they are invested in what they believe to be true. As long as they live out of an unquestioned mind, they must continue to argue with what they believe is happening rather than the reality of what is really happening."
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"Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world - the world of stars and waters, clouds, mountains and living organisms. There is such a thing as rhythm - rhythm of tides, rhythm of biological processes... There is rhythm and there is motion. Time is a way of measuring motion."
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