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• The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

  Travels in Hyperreality (2014) 133

  Umberto Eco
  Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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• The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

  Alfred N. Whitehead
  English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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• The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

  Joseph Brodsky
  Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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• The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

  Louis de Bernieres
  British novelist (1954 - )
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• The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

  Henry Miller
  American writer (1891 - 1980)
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• The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher
  American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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• The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
  

  Thomas Paine
  English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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• The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

  Anita Diamant
  American author (1951 - )
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• The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

  Nikos Kazantzakis
  Greek writer (1883 - 1957)
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• The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!

  Ezra Pound
  American poet (1885 - 1972)
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• The real news is bad news.

  Marshall Mcluhan
  Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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• The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

  Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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• The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

  George Henry Lewes
  English philosopher and critic (1817 - 1878)
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• The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

  Eric Hoffer
  American writer (1902 - 1983)
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• The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

  Garry Kasparov
  Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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• The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.
  

  George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

  Adam Smith
  Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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• The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

  B. F. Skinner
  American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  C. S. Lewis
  Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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• The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

  Anita Hill
  American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• consciousness
• enlightenment
• unfortunately
• meditation
• persuaders
• parliament

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