Real World Quotes - Page 34

• The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics - you can do magic.

  Paul Davies

  Dream, Real, Law

  "Dreams - the lucid experience". "All in the Mind" with Lynne Malcolm, www.abc.net.au. November 2, 2014.

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• Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Guy, Warning

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.359, Penguin

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• I looked at 73 climate models going back to 1979 and every single one predicted more warming than happened in the real world.

  John Christy

  Real, Climate, World

  "Climate models wildly overestimated global warming, study finds". Interview with Maxim Lott, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2013.

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• In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what needs to be done-and then doing it-no matter what thoughts or feelings arise.

  Dan Millman

  Real, Successful, Focus

  Dan Millman (2010). “Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions”, p.124, New World Library

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• If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also have the right to sustain his life by grappling with and transforming resources; he must be able to own the ground and the resources on which he stands and which he must use. In short, to sustain his human right.

  Murray Rothbard

  Real, Men, Self

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.52, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Economic Models, Rotten

  "Understanding Power". Book by Noam Chomsky, 2002.

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• That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, People, World

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• If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

  Alan Watts

  Real, Past, World

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Seniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world.

  Harry Reid

  Senior, Real, Stupid

  "Reid: Save the Postal Service, seniors depend on junk mail", www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.

  Richard Gere

  Real, Bulls, World

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• The reason you go to university is to be taught, is to learn how to think more clearly, to call into question the ideas that you came with and think about whether or not they are the ideas you will always want to hold. A university education at its best is a time of confusion and questioning, a time to learn how to think clearly about the values and principles that guide one's life. Of course, it's also a time to acquire the skills needed for jobs in the "real world," but the part about becoming an adult with ideals and integrity is also important.

  Joan Wallach Scott

  Real, Integrity, Thinking

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.

  Michele Bachmann

  Real, Government, People

  "Michele Bachmann Looks Ahead After Iowa Straw Poll Victory". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. August 14, 2011.

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• He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

  Salman Rushdie

  Real, Magic, World

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

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• It's fun to toy around with press stuff a little bit, because in many ways it's not a real world.

  Joshua Homme

  Fun, Real, World

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases who hide out here because they can't make it in the real world, in real jobs — isn't this why we left England in the first place? To establish our own alternate reality. Weren't the Pilgrims pretty much the crackpots of their time? For sure, instead of just wanting to believe something different about God's love, the losers I work with want to find salvation through compulsive behaviors.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Real, Believe

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• What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world.

  Larissa Sansour

  Real, World, Science Fiction

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• For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world.

  Dan Brown

  Real, Submarines, World

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• For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.

  Dan Brown

  Real, Technology, Law

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• When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.

  Carly Fiorina

  Real, Mean, Arrows

  "Fiorina Ready to Rumble for Boxer's Senate Seat". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. June 9, 2010.

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• Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.

  William Gibson

  Real, Thinking, Grandchildren

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• Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

  Gene Wolfe

  Real, Believe, Mind

  "The Shadow of the Torturer". Book by Gene Wolfe, 1980.

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• Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Sorry, Real, Mean

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• Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?

  William Glasser

  Real, School, World

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• I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

  Temple Grandin

  Real, Needs, World

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• Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Giving Up, Real, Thinking

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, James M. Edie (1964). “The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics”, p.159, Northwestern University Press

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