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  • Thomas Carlyle Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Pierre Corneille Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Bertrand Russell Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Anita Brookner Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Sammy Davis Jr Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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  • Caleb Deschanel Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Lily Tomlin Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Robert J. Ringer Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.
    Robert J. Ringer
    American writer
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  • Thomas J. Watson Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • Ralph Gerard Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Joseph Roux Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • John Dryden Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • C. S. Lewis Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Josh Billings Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Iain Banks Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
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    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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