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Real Quotes - Page 471

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

Walter Savage Landor (1933). “Classical conversations: being imaginary conversations among Greek, Roman and Modern personages of classic consequence in the history of human culture”

The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel.

Walt Mueller (1999). “Understanding Today's Youth Culture”, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.

"Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service". Book by Theodore B. Kinni, 2001.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.6, Vintage

Doing what you want to do is life; and there is no real satisfaction in living if we are compelled to be forever doing something which we do not like to do, and can never do what we want to do. And it is certain that you can do what you want to do; the desire to do it is proof that you have within you the power which can do it. Desire is a manifestation of power.

Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.68, e-artnow

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.103, Penguin

The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.

"Materialism and Empirio-criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy (1908)". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Chapter Five: "The Recent Revolution in Natural Science and Philosophical Idealism". Collected Works, Volume 14, www.marxists.org.