5,320 Quotes About Real


  • Author Greg Giraldo
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    I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

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  • Author Hans-Georg Gadamer
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    The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

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  • Author Harold H. Greene
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    If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

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  • Author Henepola Gunaratana
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    By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.

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  • Author Henry Louis Gates
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    People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

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  • Author Henry Louis Gates
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    Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can go back 200 or 300 years and actually populate your family tree with real people who had names and documents. They had customs, characteristics that, unbeknownst to you, you have inherited. Almost through osmosis it has been passed down to you.

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