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“When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.”

Ifs Men Giving Persons Said Real Young Spirit Ought Contrary Impression Young Man Being Real Depressing Cheerful Trumpets Noisy Tin Banging

Book:Love at Second Sight

Source: Love at Second Sight

“Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.”

Needs Giving Real States Interest Weight Trade Unity Dues Socialism Fascism Recognise Guilds Unionism

Book:Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions

Source: Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions

“I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.”

Thinking World Giving Real Seems Levels Drama Performances Occasions Shooting Real World Real Things

Author:Tony Scott

“The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.”

Giving Real Artist Vision Generations Function

Author:Doris McCarthy

“Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.”

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts, however, the philosophical Idea is found in a particular specificality or medium. The single circle, because it is a real totality, bursts through the limits imposed by its special medium, and gives rise to a wider circle. The whole of philosophy in this way resembles a circle of circles. The Idea appears in each single circle, but, at the same time, the whole Idea is constituted by the system of these peculiar phases, and each is a necessary member of the organisation.”

Way Giving Ideas Real Philosophy Whole Found Special Particular Limits Members Philosophical Circles Mediums Peculiar Phases Organisation Totality

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or political facts provide the real and sufficient explanation of sociological questions. On the other hand, the psychoanalyst must emphasize that the subject of sociology, society, in reality consists of individuals, and that it is these human beings, rather than abstract society as such, whose actions, thoughts, and feelings are the object of sociological research.”

“Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs to be filled: we have a psychological need for God -- imaginary friend, father, big brother, confessor, confidant -- and the need has to be satisfied whether God really exists or not. But could it be that God clutters up a gap that we'd be better off filling with something else? Science, perhaps? Art? Human friendship? Humanism? Love of this life in the real world, giving no credence to other lives beyond the grave?”

“Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.”

Giving Real Dream Reality Names Results Objects Civilization

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing them, in reading them, in criticizing them. Vive les différences! They're what gives each genre its singular flavor and savor, its particular interest for the reader - and the writer.”

Giving Writing Real Romance Reading Interest Differences Fiction Fantasy Mystery Particular Reader Horror Science Fiction Genre Criticize Realistic Flavor Realistic Fiction

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form -- to make it true and real to the theme, not to life.”

Giving Art Real Reality Form Purpose Artist Song Painting Determination Tales Confused Theme Imaginative

Book:The Sherwood Anderson reader

Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader

“Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.”

Giving Art Ideas Real Beautiful Giving Up Hearing Concerts Beautiful Things Real Music

Author:Frederic Chopin

“We have restricted humans from giving 'free' food to bears and dolphins because we know that such feeding would make them dependent and lead to their extinction. But when it comes to our own species, we have difficulty seeing the connection between short-term kindness and long-term cruelty; we give women money to have more children, making them more dependent with each child and discouraging them from developing the tools to fend for themselves. The real discrimination against women, then, is 'free feeding'.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“The Council of the Union of Democratic Control re-affirms its unshaken conviction that a lasting settlement cannot be secured by a peace based upon the right of conquest and followed by commercial war, but only by a peace which gives just consideration to the claims of nationality, and which lays the foundation of a real European partnership.”

Giving War Real Claims Foundation Lays Unions Democratic Conviction Consideration Lasting Partnership Conquest Council Nationality Settlement Secured

Author:Norman Angell

“Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light via differential absorption and reflection. Call this reflected quality 'luminance' and measure it in millilamberts. This measure is as real and present as height, breadth, depth; and I find the phenomenon equally sumptuous and convincing. . . . Painted light, not color, not form, not perspective, or line, not image, or words, or equations, is painting. I make paintings which do not represent light, they are light.”

“It's the band that really counts and not our egos. Egos probably destroyed more bands than anything else did, and that's something we want to avoid at all costs. We want to give the audience something real, something spectacular, and if it would be about egos, it would hardly be worth their time.”

Ifs Want Giving Real Would Be Audience Cost Band Ego Destroyed Spectacular Something Real

Author:Chester Bennington

“The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.”

“The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.”

World Giving Real Values Language Process Feminism Influence Empowering Real Work Value Systems

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that.”

Want Giving Real Easy Common Fantasy Who You Are Versions Appreciated Give And Take Real Relationship

Author:Keri Russell

“Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.”

Giving Real Demon Old Time

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away.”

Ifs Giving Real Quality Substitutes Desperation Discounts

Author:Geoffrey Zakarian

“Russia's only real geostrategic option - the option that would give Russia a realistic international role and also maximize the opportunity of transforming and socially modernizing itself - is Europe.”

Giving Real Opportunity Roles Europe International Russia Realistic Transforming

Book:The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

Source: The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

“May Sarton said, "the deeper you go, the more universal you become." It's a reminder to me that those things I try to convince myself I don't need to admit are usually those things I need the most to say. Speaking the truth, in its most poignant details, is liberating and gives those around us the freedom to be real.”

Needs Giving Trying May Said Real Universal Details Deeper Convince Being Real Reminders Liberating Speak The Truth Poignant

Author:Sabrina Ward Harrison

“Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.”

Giving Real Reading Pleasure Strange Giving Up Myth Mythology Collections Tease Unfamiliar Pleasure Of Reading

Author:Elizabeth Hand

“Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a while a Thomas Reed Powell gets away with an imaginary judicial opinion that gives a real twist to the lion's tail. Once in a while a Thurman Arnold forgets his footnotes as though to say that if people do not believe or understand him that is their worry and not his. But even such mild breaches of etiquette as these are tolerated gingerly and seldom, and are likely to be looked at a little askance by the writers' more pious brethren.”

“In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve as the lodestar of our political system only if its terms are binding on us. To the extent we depart from the document's language and rely instead on generalities that we see written between the lines, we rob the Constitution of its binding force and give free reign to the fashions and passions of the day.”

Ifs Giving Real Political Passion Language Force Term Lines Written Fashion Constitution Rely Documents Reign Political Systems Binding Compact Generalities Between The Lines

Author:Alex Kozinski

“Instead of loving a God, we love each other. Instead of the religion of the sky-the religion of this world-the religion of the family-the love of husband for wife, of wife for husband-the love of all for children. So that now the real religion is: Let us live for each other; let us live for this world without regard for the past and without fear for the future. Let us use our faculties and our powers for the benefit of ourselves and others, knowing that if there be another world, the same philosophy that gives us joy here will make us happy there.”

Source: Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works

“Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.”

“I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.”

Thinking Giving Real Perfect Giving Up Cancer Corners Divorce Teenager Relief Expecting Plague Judgmental Certitude

Author:Molly Ivins

“The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hallucination. Not one of those aims, not even the aim of giving every adult a vote, has been realized. It has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”

Men Giving Has Beens Made Real Courses Christianity Democracy Wise Achievement Adults Vote Aim Imaginary Sheer Identical Hallucinations

Author:H. L. Mencken

“I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take our being, that which is most precious to us, and we throw it into eternity with a total sense of offering.”

Giving Real Self Compassion Ideals Eternity Offering Samadhi Real Self Self Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.”

Giving Looks Real Play Sports Estates Andrew

Author:Sam Snead

“The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.”

Giving Real Three Next Literature Answers Responsibility Novel Real Questions

Author:David Guterson

“Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance. No wonder then that many people feel the need for some belief that gives them a sense of security, and no wonder that they become very angry with people like me who say that this is illusory.”

People Needs Giving Feels Real Universe Belief Existence Situation Wonder Atheism Security Angry Positive Atheism Like Me Fantastic Desperate Significance Clue Illusory

Book:The nature of the universe

Source: The nature of the universe