Reality

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  • A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
        William Hazlitt   Best?
  • Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
        General Omar Bradley   Best?
  • An artist does not fake reality--he *stylizes* it.
        Ayn Rand   Best?
  • Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
        William Blake   Best?
  • Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... [i] t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it! It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode!
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view.
        Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde   Best?
  • You know, I think that if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watch on TV and more time worrying about what's going on in their kids' lives, this world would be a much better place.
        Trey Parker and Matt Stone   Best?
  • We're like actors, turned loose in this world to wander in search of a phantom, endlessly searching for a half formed shadow of our lost reality. When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder. The most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.
        Jim Morrison   Best?
  • The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
        Socrates   Best?
  • Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
        Henry Ford   Best?
  • The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • If you laid all of the lawyers in the world, end to end, on the equator ---- It would be a good idea to just leave them there.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
        Iris Murdoch   Best?
  • The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
        Ben Hecht   Best?
  • The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
        Italian Proverb   Best?
  • I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality.
        Fernando Botero   Best?
  • I am certain there is too much certainy in the world.
        Michael Crichton   Best?
  • Reality is only just a word.
        Harry Chapin   Best?
  • Remember that the evil which is now in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love.
        The Grand Duchess Olga of Russ   Best?
  • For you and me, today is all we have; tomorrow is a mirage that may never become a reality.
        Louis L'Amour   Best?
  • Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
        Ayn Rand   Best?
  • What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them becuase they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  • What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
        Oscar Levant   Best?
  • Imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we appreciate each other's differences; one in which we are all equal but definately not the same.
        Barbra Streisand   Best?

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