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• Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.

  Wil Wheaton

  Real, Love Is, Dust

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• You don't get second chances in the real world.

  Gail Simmons

  Real, Second Chance, World

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• in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.

  Alison Lurie

  Art, Real, What Matters

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• What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human life on earth. My life depends on engaging the most ordinary physical activities with the most exquisite attention I can give them. My life depends on ignoring all touted distinctions between the secular and the sacred, the physical and the spiritual, the body and the soul. What is saving my life now is becoming more fully human, trusting that there is no way to God apart from real life in the real world.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Spiritual, Real, Giving

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• In school tests, there's only one answer for each question, and you might get zero or half points if you're wrong. But in the real world, things aren't so black and white, so think about things on your own and express them in words or pictures. That's how you communicate with people. That's so important.

  Hideaki Anno

  Zero, Real, School

  "Buried Treasure". www.animenewsnetwork.com. May 3, 2007.

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• In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is.

  Ann Coulter

  Law, United States, World

  "The Hun is at the gate". townhall.com. November 29, 2001.

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• One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of positivist philosophy, however, one cannot determine what is real. All one can do is find which mathematical models describe the universe we live in. It turns out that a mathematical model involving imaginary time predicts not only effects we have already observed but also effects we have not been able to measure yet nevertheless believe in for other reasons. So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds?

  Stephen Hawking

  Philosophy, Real, Believe

  "The Universe in a Nutshell". Book by Stephen Hawking, 2001.

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• Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

  Eric S. Raymond

  Real, Writing, World

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• What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

  Joey Ramone

  Real, School, Rocks

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• You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country... That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Country, Real, Impact

  "ABC Paints Obama as Victim, Stephanopoulos Echoes Emanuel on Greatest Success". www.newsbusters.org. April 29, 2009.

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• What can we say to people who think that dreams are the real world and this one is an illusion. Perhaps they're right.

  Lothaire Bluteau

  Dream, Real, Thinking

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• Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.

  Ai Weiwei

  Real, Thinking, Government

  "China's censorship can never defeat the internet". www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2012.

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• We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible.

  David Foster

  Real, Empathy, Suffering

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• When I'm working in the real world with real women and we're shopping, we find that fashion seems to end when you get any larger than a size 12. How ridiculous is that?

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Real, Shopping

  "Tim Gunn: Fashion Seems To End At A Size 12" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2013.

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• Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world

  Brent Spiner

  Real, World, Fictional Worlds

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• The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life.

  Eustace Conway

  Real, Men, Fake World

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• Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Interesting, Judgement

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I assumed that the root of the problem was that I was too strange for the real world. That being the case, I created a charming and dynamic personality to make the necessary forays into the Outside, and I kept my strangeness for myself; my own peculiar jewels under lock and key.

  Rosanne Cash

  Dream, Real, Self

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• If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.

  Loni Anderson

  Real, Alive, World

  Loni Anderson (1995). “My Life in High Heels”, William Morrow & Company

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• I am no kind of philanthropist or humanitarian, but it is really nice to get those emails from all over the world of people who said, I had nothing to laugh at or my son was really sick or my husband is really sick and we put on your DVDs and we laughed, thanks for making the real world go away for a little while.

  Jeff Dunham

  Husband, Real, Nice

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.

  Allen West

  Real, Agency, Volunteer

  "CPAC Highlights: Rubio and West". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 14, 2013.

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• I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.

  Charles de Lint

  Real, Writing, Character

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• The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

  John Spencer

  Real, Cutting, Technology

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• A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

  Walter Lippmann

  Real, Men, Balance

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.43, Transaction Publishers

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• Until now, physical theories have been regarded as merely models with approximately describe the reality of nature. As the models improve, so the fit between theory and reality gets closer. Some physicists are now claiming that supergravity is the reality, that the model and the real world are in mathematically perfect accord.

  Paul Davies

  Nature, Real, Science

  Paul Davies (1985). “Superforce”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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