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reality scientist optional
For scientists, reality is not optional. Barbara Kingsolver
reality perfection
Reality and perfection are synonymous. Baruch Spinoza
reality fiction epiphany
What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth. Azar Nafisi
reality limits fairy-tale
Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.
reality men thinking
You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it. Ayn Rand
reality thinking law
The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality. Brian Tracy
reality thinking people
You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are. Brian Bosworth
reality hands order
Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any level of it's order; humanity preaches an all-prevasive equality and freely hands-out unearned "rights" in an attempt to make its doctrine a living reality. In short: humanity is Democratic, nature is Fascist. Boyd Rice
reality tasks said
Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said. Jane Hirshfield
law broken appearance
The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken. Boss Tweed
law immigration distinction
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it. Barbara Jordan
law mind reform
Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive. Bashar al-Assad
law essence substance
Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.
law giving justice
Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right." —The law of Badger Lords Brian Jacques
law community decision
The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made. Jane D. Hull
law government london
London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law. Benjamin Disraeli
law punishment crime
Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime. Cardinal Richelieu
law would-be feels
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more. Calvin Coolidge
fiction jay-gould essays
I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas. Alan Lightman
fiction remember stranger
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. Arthur C. Clarke
fiction honest aim
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. Anton Chekhov
fiction popularity programs
The popularity of these programs has an impact. There is a blurring of fiction and reality. Laurie Levenson
fiction easy tales
How easy it is to tell tales! Denis Diderot
fiction life love whether
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life. Abraham Verghese
fiction realizing social
What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time. Doris Lessing
fiction science-fiction
There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now. Allen Ginsberg
fiction ground los reality
What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles. Michael Connelly