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Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary. -- Magdalen Nabb
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Find out who you are and do it on purpose. -- Dolly Parton
Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -- David Richo
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. -- Harry S. Truman
There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. -- Mark Twain
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. -- Joseph Conrad
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. -- Marge Piercy
It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed. -- Cynthia Lewis
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face. -- Leonard Binder
Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo A rolling stone can gather no moss -- Publilius Syrus
Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better. -- E. W. Howe
Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that there are differences between men and women. -- Kristina Schroder
I don't know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it's the only time you've got. You can either sit on your expletive deleted or pick a daisy. -- Art Buchwald
My doctor told me I was going to be marginal at this test and he'd given me some hope that maybe I was going to be OK. But when I went in and did it I realized I wasn't going to be able to pass it so I've been working on accepting reality. -- Doug MacDonald
You learn to accept your own reality. -- Shania Twain
I accept reality and dare not question it. -- Walt Whitman
It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. -- Bill Watterson
To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it. -- George Wald
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. -- Elizabeth Edwards
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality. -- Phillip E. Johnson
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum. -- Annie Jacobsen
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not. -- Marya Mannes
Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality. -- Siri Hustvedt
I think that the people who are trying to shut down WikiLeaks are going to have to accept this as a fact of reality that cryptography allows you to do this kind of thing. -- Whitfield Diffie
If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality. -- Darell Hammond
It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside. -- Christoph Waltz
I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith. -- Brennan Manning
I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality. -- Jermaine Jackson
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values. -- Abraham Maslow
The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story. -- Ryan White
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. -- Sigmund Freud
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. -- Pope John Paul II
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity. -- Allan Lokos
That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality. -- Ray Dalio
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day. -- Bertrand Russell
People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it. -- Lionel Suggs
You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way. -- Haruki Murakami
The irony of life is we always compare our fantasies with reality, rather than accepting the reality as is and transforming it into a paradise.... -- Ramana Pemmaraju
The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation. -- Sandra L. Schneider

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