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“Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.”

Real Facts Happens Together Picks Insight Real Education

Author:Terry Pratchett

“It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you disgusted with art.”

Love Mean Art Said Real Hands Loss Real Love Disgusted

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.”

World May Real Home Beautiful Life Is Survival Be Good Beautiful Things Homeless Save A Life

Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...

“Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.”

World Mind Real Facts Society Real World Inconsistency

Book:Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

“We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse... we tend to lose touch with our real selves.”

Real Self Understanding Loses Protect Criticism Lonely Crowds Protection Rejection Family And Friends Misunderstood Steep Real Self Camouflage

Author:Sidney Jourard

“A real friend ... exults in his friends happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.”

Real Joy Friendship Advice Ready Rejoice Real Friends Best Advice

Author:Herodotus

“As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and blood. A lot of hot, sticky blood.”

Ifs Heart Real Found Names Cutting Blood Hot Lungs Dolls Rags Sticky Intestines

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper.”

Ifs Real Body Too Much Mines Your Body Temples Maintenance Fixers Body Is A Temple

Book:Survivor: A Novel

Source: Survivor: A Novel

“You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.”

Art Real Loneliness Listening Music Is Hearing

Author:Keith Richards

“The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.”

Real Values Prejudice Real Value

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.”

Real Hands Blood Draws University Hostile Prompts

Book:We Must March My Darlings: A Critical Decade

Source: We Must March My Darlings: A Critical Decade

“Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species.”

Art Real Running Half Art Is Rivers Stones Species Feminist Gender Tiny Cracks One Half Flawless Creeks Subjugation Feminist Art

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.”

People Thinking Real Death Artist Virtue Design Creating Customers Practicals Clothings Individualism Accessories

Author:Giorgio Armani

“Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.”

Real Individual Devil Charity Boards

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish.”

Persons Long Real Realizing

Author:Mooji

“This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.”

Knows Real Reality Seems Past Realizing Events Identity Function Arise Dependent Remarkable Paradox Principal Future Events

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

“In the real world of competition, the players want to compete and they want to compete at the very highest level.”

World Want Real Levels Player Highest Competition Real World

Author:Vince McMahon

“Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister”

People Wells May Real Purpose Hate Like You Ministers Prime Purpose Of Life Prime Minister Hate You

Author:Tony Blair

“I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.”

Real Beautiful Spiritual Vision Journey Loneliness Independence Beautiful Things Very Beautiful Spiritual Journey

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.”

Real Facts Shows Wish Freedom Notion Bounds Liberation Bondage

Book:Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

Source: Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

“Everything I can't see / is at least as real as what I can.”

Book:Different Hours: Poems

Source: Different Hours: Poems

“Real feminism is spinsterhood.”

Real Feminism Gender Spinsterhood

Book:Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.”

People World May Real Literature Loses Opinion Office Intelligent Track Servant Pleasant Real World Status Quo Public Opinion Palaces Diplomats Civil Servants

Author:Anthony Holden

“Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause”

Real Causes Hatred Hated

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.”

Ifs Men May Real Body Actors Stars Roles Millions Fronts Fine Degrees Models Shots Standing Paid Cameras Heat Role Models Armor Grimace

Author:Ben Stein

“Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.”

Way War Real Done Today America Peace Capacity Tests Objectives Combat Inevitability Prevention

Author:Dale E. Turner

“Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self.”

Men Real Self Desire Taste Singing Bliss Glimpse Devotional Real Self Bhajans

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“God is in everyone. God is in you and you are God. Strengthen this fundamental truth. When you propagate this truth, that is the real service. It is the service that will take you to closer proximity, a boat. In this ocean of life, take the help of this boat and gain the proximity.”

Real Helping Ocean Gains Fundamentals Boat Proximity

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Death happens to the body with which it is associated, with which it mixes. The delusion that the body is the core, that the body is real, that verily is the death.”

Real Body Happens Core Delusion

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.”

Way Giving Real Speak Nature Pleasure Lovers Summer Glory Praise Winter Real Love

Book:The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals

Source: The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals

“The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.”

People World Important Real Reading Hours Prayer Walks Meditation Minutes Habit Solitude Quiet Real World Quiet Time Inspirational Prayer Inspirational Reading

Author:Ken Blanchard

“If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.”

Ifs Real Feelings Memories Real Feelings

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Real achievement -- the true measure of how far we have advanced in life -- is not determined by what we have acquired, but rather by the degree to which we have put our fears behind us.”

Real Life Is Behinds Degrees Achievement Determined

Book:365 Days to Let Go: Daily Insights to Change Your Life

Source: 365 Days to Let Go: Daily Insights to Change Your Life

“In the middle of the cavernous cargo hold was a simple, aluminum coffin with a small American flag draped over it. We were bringing another American soldier, just killed, home to his family and final resting place. The starkness of his coffin in the center of the hold, the silence except for the din of the engines, was a real time cold reminder of the consequences of decisions for which we Senators share responsibility.”

Real Home Simple Decision Silence Responsibility Share Middle Cold Consequence Finals Soldier Over It Engines Flags Senators Reminders Coffins American Flag American Soldier Cargo Aluminum

Author:John F. Kerry

“The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .”

Real Failure Tests Patience Shame Perseverance Persevere Inaction Success And Failure Success Failure Perserverance Success Or Failure Learning From Failure Patience And Perseverance Patience And Persistence

Author:Barack Obama

“The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.”

Thinking Needs Doe Real Beautiful Artist Paint Commerce Living Things Real Artists

Author:Irving Stone

“The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.”

Book Real Nature Study Taken Immense Good Book Manifold Louvre Old Picture

Author:Paul Cezanne

“No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how it is presented, nothing on what.”

Feels Art Real Form Language Understanding Subjects Painting Depends Importance Pictorial

Book:A Roger Fry Reader

Source: A Roger Fry Reader

“In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry... may be employed to evade and shuffle off real labor - the real labor of thinking.”

Thinking May Art Real Eye Practice Industry Labor Assuming Jealous Disguise Employed Idleness Shuffle

Book:The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“It's kind of a unique concept, but it's totally real, isn't it? ... I mean, these paramedics put themselves in incredibly stressful situations, are killing themselves to save our lives and they're not really regarded or appreciated.”

Kind Mean Real Situation Our Lives Unique Concepts Killing Uniqueness Appreciated Stressful Paramedics Stressful Situations

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.”

Looks Real Home Eye Chance Europe Hunger Glad Ashamed Leaving Me Away From Home Never Leave Me

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.”

Real Kings Beggar Beggary

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Real Might Religion Understanding Chance Divine Ego Seconds Experiencing Something

Author:John Cleese

“All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.”

Real Impossible Program Errors

Book:The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects

Source: The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects

“Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.”

Art Real Natural Mystery Shadow Serving Unseen Unseen Things

Author:Cennino Cennini

“I don''t like this reality television, I have to be honest;I think real people should not be on television; It''s for special people like us, people who have trained and studied to appear to be real”

People Thinking Should Real Reality Special Honest Television Being Honest Being Real Reality Television Special People

Author:Garry Shandling

“Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person.”

Persons Real Reality Jesus Lonely Scared Real Person Sorrowful

Author:M. Scott Peck

“So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm writing that book review for every bad book reviewer I've ever known and it's a way of saying [thrusts a middle finger into the air] this is how you ought to do it. I like to rub their noses in it.”

Way Writing Book Real Known Air Middle Ought Fingers Noses Reviews Contests Thrust Chores Reviewers Book Review Middle Finger

Author:John Irving

“What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.”

World Way Real Done Order Achieve Color Painting Real Life Satisfied Purity Bombs Urges Throwing Conventions Maximum Renewal Tangible Liberated

Author:Maurice de Vlaminck

“I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!”

People Real Seems Artist Sides Pay Position Lifetime Painter Honour Compliment Showers Real Friends

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir