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"Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves living in a precarious state of employment and subsistence conditions. The impact of this reality took hold and impacted the evolution of the social situation of those countries and even though that produced movements that were not exactly political movements but social movements."

Country Reality Impact
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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
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"I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream."

Dream Reality World Love
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Artur Davis Politician
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"You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections."

Reality Losing Favors
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes."

Mean Reality Divorce
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"What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality."

Eye Reality Meditation
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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen."

World Reality Order
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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Fear of the unknown... They are afraid of new ideas... They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on... "If something is new, I reject it immediately because it's frightening to me." What they do instead is just stay with the familiar. You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious."

Ideas Beautiful Reality
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Wilferd Peterson Author and Speaker
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"You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time."

Want Mind Reality
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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now."

Believe Reality Successful
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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man."

Men Reality Goal
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Ralph Ellison Novelist, Essayist
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"Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false face, and so on until it surrenders its insight, its truth."

Reality Struggle Mad
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Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist
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"Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear."

Art Reality Literature
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is."

Reality Pain Grief
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Reality

"Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph."

Reality Mirrors Reflection
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda."

Reality Light Tunnels
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Teresa of Avila Saint, Mystic, Writer
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"Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is."

People Giving Reality
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