Real Quotes - Page 40

• Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Dream, Age, Aging

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• The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

  Henri Rousseau

  Believe, Simple, Men

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• How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

  Samuel Butler

  Children, Parent, Virtue

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.43, The Floating Press

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• Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Thinking, Wind, Ideas

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• [Angels] guide us to become spiritual people for the pleasure of it... because the spiritual life itself has a great deal of beauty and real satisfaction, even pleasure. And this is what the soul needs.

  Thomas Moore

  Spiritual, Angel, People

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• I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Thinking, Persons

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• From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real Essences of Bodies; but yet plainly discover to us the Being of a GOD, and the Knowledge of our selves, enough to lead us into a full and clear discovery of our Duty, and great Concernment, it will become us, as rational Creatures, to imploy those Faculties we have about what they are most adapted to, and follow the direction of Nature, where it seems to point us out the way.

  John Locke

  God, Knowledge, Science

  John Locke (1721). “An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)”, p.714, Library of Alexandria

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• Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it's like to be in someone else's predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own-often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

  Richard Carlson

  Gratitude, Pain, Heart

  Richard Carlson (2011). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• When you can feel that you already have what you want, then you will attract what you want. In fact, you already have it. Just feel it now and feel it real.

  Joe Vitale

  Inspirational, Want, Facts

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• Inspiration gives you a desire. Decision makes it an intention. Action makes it real.

  Joe Vitale

  Inspirational, Giving, Decision

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• The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.

  Felix Adler

  Spiritual, Unique, Diversity

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• It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own - often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

  Richard Carlson

  Gratitude, Pain, Heart

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.

  Robert Blair

  Heart, Knowledge, Passion

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• You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

  Sam Harris

  People, Mind, Argument

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• The best feeling is watching a real football game, because the games they show in the movies aren't real.

  John Madden

  Funny, Football, Games

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• Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity. If you wanted to run the blender, you had to rub balloons on your head. If you wanted to cook, you had to pull off a sweater real quick

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Life, Running

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• Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

  Francis Bacon

  Conceited, Use, Wealth

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• One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of the subject, its symbolism and formality, its baffling terminology, its apparent delight in lengthy calculations: these tend to obscure its real nature. A musician would be horrified if his art were to be summed up as "a lot of tadpoles drawn on a row of lines"; but that"s all that the untrained eye can see in a page of sheet music... In the same way, the symbolism of mathematics is merely its coded form, not its substance.

  Ian Stewart

  Art, Eye, Math

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• Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superiour to all private passions.

  John Adams

  Passion, Government, People

  Massachusetts Historical Society, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Warren (1917). “Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814”

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• Welcome to the real world, she said to me.
  Condescendingly.
  Take a seat.
  Take your life.
  Plot it out in black and white.

  John Mayer

  Black And White, Plot, World

  Song: No Such Thing

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• I can get caught in many things but there is one thing I will never get caught in, and that is acting - because I don't act. On screen I am like I am in real life.

  Salman Khan

  Acting, Caught, One Thing

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

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• Never stop asking yourself whether you can do things better. Keep testing every aspect of your business to the nth degree, and challenge every one of your assumptions. The tougher you are on yourself now, the tougher your business will be out there in the real world.

  James Caan

  Challenges, Degrees, Asking

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• Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds . . . . If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance.

  John Madden

  Funny, Math, Nfl

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• For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.

  Meat Loaf

  Past, Years, Done

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

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• The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.

  Peter Marshall

  Jesus, Earth, Hell

  Peter Marshall (1963). “Heaven Can't Wait”

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