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• There’s no real separation between the real world and the Internet. What we’ve begun to see now is a militarization of that space.

  Jacob Appelbaum

  Real, Space, World

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• Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Real, Writing, Giving

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• At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of economics, put it, "To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind... is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world." Because knowledge is dispersed, power must be as well.

  George Gilder

  Real, Heart, School

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.4, Regnery Publishing

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• The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to be laser battles and things exploding, you can be JG Ballad and maybe just change one little thing about the real world and that becomes science fiction.

  Duncan Jones

  Real, Battle, Littles

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There have been a lot of events that have made me really look at the real world, like September 11th. There are so many things that just make you realize that you're not going to live forever and that you have to enjoy every day.

  Mae Whitman

  Real, Forever, September 11

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

  Johann Lamont

  Real, Ambition, Together

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• If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Real, Skills, Asymmetry

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• When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.

  Francine Pascal

  Girl, Sweet, Real

  "How the Sweet Valley girls grew up". Interview With Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2012.

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• You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.

  Tamora Pierce

  Real, World, Wells

  "Philip Pullman, Tamora Pierce, and Christopher Paolini Talk Fantasy Fiction". Interview with Dave Weich, www.highbeam.com. July 31, 2003.

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• Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Real, Thinking, World

  "Evolution Is a Spiritual Process". Interview with Anthony Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2011.

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• Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.

  Irvin Kershner

  Real, Lying, Believe

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• I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.

  Jane McGonigal

  Real, Play, Games

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• It considers not only how we relate to others, but how we relate to our ideas of others so that a completely phony, non-human replica of a dead wife can inspire the same feelings that the wife herself once did. That is a peculiarity of humans: We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars. Our idea of humanity bewitches us, while humanity itself stays safely sealed away into its billions of separate containers, or "people.

  Roger Ebert

  Falling In Love, Stars, Real

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Real, World, Problem

  "On the cruelty of really teaching computing science" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. December 2, 1988.

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• Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often concerns itself with scientific or technological change, and it usually involves matters whose importance is greater than the individual or the community; often civilization or the race itself is in danger.

  James Gunn

  Real, Past, Technological Change

  James Gunn (1979). “Road to Science Fiction 2”, Signet

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• How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those whose entire mental training has conditioned them to believe that the real world is the world which can be satisfactorily explained and managed without the hypothesis of God? I know of only one clue to the answering of that question, only one real hermeneutic of the gospel: a congregation which believes it.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Real, Believe, Training

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• Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Dolls, World, Intention

  Kathryn Lasky (2013). “The Royal Diaries: Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769”, p.182, Scholastic Inc.

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• Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen pitfalls down the road. Noam Wasserman uses vivid anecdotes and deep research to expertly outline the key early choices that define a startup, making The Founder's Dilemmas an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.

  Chad Hurley

  Real, Impact, Errors

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• The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.

  B. F. Skinner

  Real, Book, Men

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• Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And these misconceptions and naïveté are brutally exposed in the light of the real world.

  Robert Greene

  Real, Thinking, What Matters

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.64, Profile Books

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• The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective ways of organizing and using the material. For content and form are interrelated. The problems presented by content and form must be so developed that the result is fundimentally [sic] true to the realities of life as we know it. The chief problem is to find a form that adequately represents the reality.

  Paul Strand

  Real, Cameras, Records

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• I don't think there are beautiful women out there trying to lure men into any kind of conspiracy. I think people are out there just trying to meet someone new and interesting and live in the real world.

  Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

  Beautiful, Real, Men

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• The board transported its jurisdiction to a never-never land where a Dorothy of the new millennium might exclaim: "They still call it Kansas, but I don't think we're in the real world anymore."

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Real, Thinking, Land

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• I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.

  Mike Leigh

  Real, Mean, Independent

  "Big Think Interview With Mike Leigh". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

  Clifford Stoll

  Real, Giving, Doe

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