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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. Azar Nafisi
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
order people masters
In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people. Ashwin Sanghi
order anxiety honor
He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly. Baruch Spinoza
order words-of-wisdom pantheism
.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow. Baruch Spinoza
order goal progress
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal. Auguste Comte
order imagination needs
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist. Azar Nafisi
order giving waiting
He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again. Ayn Rand
order skills pay
Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay. Brian Tracy
order cities different
Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order. Jane Jacobs
order judgement done
I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement. Juvenal
evil done doe
Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her? Brandon Sanderson
evil
Let us not become the evil that we deplore. Barbara Lee
evil good-and-evil affair
It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state? Benito Mussolini
evil moments being-true
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. Alain Badiou
evil president bob
During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.' Al Franken
evil mind injustice
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about. Jared Diamond
evil eye glaring hear los outside reform sacramento washington
The only possibility of reform in Los Angeles, which is a 'see no, hear no evil' city, is if there is the glaring eye of outside investigators from Sacramento and from Washington D.C., B. R. Hayden
evil television robots
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing. Daniel H. Wilson
evil politics
There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil. Bob Dole