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Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure. -- Swami Vivekananda
In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult. -- Ted Allen
Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now. -- Carlos Ghosn
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. -- James Joyce
In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world. -- Kristin Gore
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man. -- Jason Mraz
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. -- Sigmund Freud
Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing. -- Nick Cave
It's hard to point to any single inspiration for 'iZombie' since, in actuality, it's made up from elements inspired by all kinds of different thing all mashed up together. -- Chris Roberson
The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject. -- Edmund Husserl
I was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in actuality as it sounds. After the first hour, its weaknesses start to show up. -- Trent Reznor
It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse. -- Gary Busey
Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man. -- Jason Mraz
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal. -- William Ernest Henley
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. -- Hannah Arendt
It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them. -- Robert Musil
A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty driven by hard work and love working with teams. What people discount is, I grew up in a very small blue-collar town in Massachusetts and have basically scrapped my way career wise. -- Tim Armstrong
In actuality, California could be a wonderful place to live. In fact, if you're highly educated and ambitious, you can do quite well here while enjoying the sun and the fun. The only problem: California will then blame you for your success and recommend that all your cash be removed from you. -- Ben Shapiro
If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tried out in. He's an actual, er, actuality already, embedded in a necessary and true story about guilt, hope, and liberty. I don't want C. S. Lewis doing his resourceful best to render Him as a fabulous special effect. -- Francis Spufford
The actuality of thought is life. -- Aristotle
What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit. -- Jewel
The invalidity of Darwinism and the actuality of creation are scientific facts. -- Harun Yahya
in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination. -- Wallace Stevens
He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth. -- Friedrich Schiller
Facts: Words treated as statement of actuality by those who agree with them. -- Cheris Kramarae
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness. -- Arthur Eddington
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness. -- Arthur Eddington
A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery. -- Sherley Anne Williams
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality. -- John Cage
It's not just that toil allows the appearance of spontaneity. It allows the actuality of spontaneity. -- Paul Kane
Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai. -- Joseph Hertz
In all actuality, we got to do better about preparing our men for their interactions with women. -- Nate Parker
Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life. -- Hamilton Wright Mabie
If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better. -- Satyajit Ray
Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should. -- Bernard Bailyn
They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself. -- Charles Bukowski
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce. -- Aristotle
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same. -- David Bentley Hart
The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms. -- Jim Thompson
Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency. -- Soren Kierkegaard
It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality. -- L. Ron Hubbard
There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it. -- Gary Crowley
Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that. -- Bill Cowher
Each mental act opens up a new dimension of actuality. In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds. -- Jane Roberts
There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people. -- John Harvey-Jones
Your message means less than the way the message is delivered, because in actuality, the way the message is delivered, IS the message. -- Bryant McGill
Your message means less than the way the message is delivered, because in actuality, the way the message is delivered, IS the message. -- Bryant McGill
Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite. -- Bernard Bolzano
Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death. -- Roland Barthes
If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past. -- E. M. Forster
The stereotype of a leader is one who talks and peps people up and things like that, but in actuality you have to listen to your teammates. -- Chris Bosh
So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body. -- Aristotle
in thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality ... -- Shirley Hazzard
It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a kaleidoscope of emotions. -- Shankarananda
Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer -- Errol Flynn
You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit! -- Pharoahe Monch
The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality... -- Margaret Mead
To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.' -- Ajahn Chah
Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality. -- Colin Wilson
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents. -- John Updike
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other. -- Jane Yolen
God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings. -- Joseph Alexander Leighton
In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I feel like it hurts me as a musician a little. -- The Rocket Summer
The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth. -- bell hooks
Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and women and the life they live and create. -- Max Dupain
The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however. -- Werner Heisenberg
We would often rather seem dutiful to others than to succeed in our duties; and often we would rather tell our friends that we have done them good than to do good in actuality. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations. -- Willard Gaylin
This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing the fact that there is no such existence from the first. -- Thomas Merton

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