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• The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

  Hugh Masekela

  America, Trying, Culture

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• There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.

  P. L. Travers

  Children, World, Knows

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• Home staging is no longer optional in this real estate market, it is a must!

  Barbara Corcoran

  Home, Estates, Staging

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• The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .

  Bayard Rustin

  Vision, Radical, Willing

  Bayard Rustin (1971). “Down the line”, Quadrangle-New York Times Book Co.

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• Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These are terrific stories-wise, compassionate and haunting.

  Dan Chaon

  Wise, Class, Secret

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• And meteorologists have nothing to tell people in Philo, who know perfectly well that the real story is that to the west, between us and the Rockies, there is basically nothing tall, and that weird zephyrs and stirs joined breezes and gusts and thermals and downdrafts and whatever out over Nebraska and Kansas and moved like streams into rivers and jets at and military fronts that gathered like avalanches and roared in reverse down pioneer oxtrails, toward our own personal unsheltered asses.

  David Foster Wallace

  Military, Rivers, Kansas

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace, www.nytimes.com. 1997.

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• Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker.

  Christopher Moore

  Two, Giving, Pieces

  Christopher Moore (2010). “Fool”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.

  Ken Wilber

  Imagination, World, Lines

  Ken Wilber (2001). “No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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• Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is HIS business.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Letting Go, Eye, Self

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Quiet, Source, Recognizing

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• Nobody should be hitting lotto for 36 million dollars when we got people starving in the streets. That is not idealistic, that's just real. That is just stupid. There's no way Michael Jackson, or whoever should have thousands, millions, billions of dollars and we got people broke with two-three jobs and still can't pay bills on time. There's no way! No way these people should have planes when people don't have houses, apartments, shacks, drawers, pants!!!

  Tupac Shakur

  Jobs, Stupid, Should Have

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• The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to make the transition from human-centric math to machine-centric math as smooth and efficient as possible.

  Doron Zeilberger

  Math, Years, Transition

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• I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

  Isabel Allende

  Optimistic, Thinking, Culture

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (1999). “Conversations with Isabel Allende”, Univ of Texas Pr

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• Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make this debut novel a real winner.

  Kathy Reichs

  Witty, Memorable, Character

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• Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.

  R. C. Sproul

  Long, Identity, Christ

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• If we have one real strength, it's commitment and determination

  Nigel Worthington

  Determination, Commitment, Ifs

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• The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Hands, People

  "Bob Dylan discusses his latest album 'Together Through Life'". The Monterey County Herald Interview, www.montereyherald.com. August 19, 2010.

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• I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel.

  Marion Ross

  Bridges, Knowing, Brooklyn Bridge

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• Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Obedience

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.21, SCM Press

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• God offers authentic LOVE. His devotion is the real deal. But He won't give you the genuine until you surrender the imitations.

  Max Lucado

  Giving, Surrender, Devotion

  Max Lucado (2012). “A Love Worth Giving Deluxe Edition: Living in the Overflow of God's Love”, p.52, Harper Collins

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• I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Battle, Climate, Fiction

  "Arnold Schwarzenegger: climate change is not science fiction" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2015.

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• If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Eye, Ideas

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• Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

  William Godwin

  Desire, Study, Mockery

  William Godwin (1797). “The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays”, p.78

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• I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me; it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight out of somebody else's pack, lessen his load, and if it gets reciprocated, that's great, but that isn't what you did it for.

  Donald Miller

  Giving, Trying, Weight

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.312, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Now I realize that it isn't the miracle that creates the believer. Instead, we are all believers. We believe that the illusion of the material world is completely real. That belief is our only prison. It prevents us from making the journey into the unknown.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Journey, Miracle

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “How To Know God”, p.215, Random House

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