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  • Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's just facing reality. It's not a happy reality, but it's reality and if you don't deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant. -- John Bolton
  • Faith is facing reality without being discouraged by it. -- Rick Warren
  • All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is. -- Gautama Buddha
  • I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it. -- Bob Thaves
  • Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost. -- M. Scott Peck
  • The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality -- Margaret Halsey
  • Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces. -- Natalie Angier
  • That was how I was going to get things back to normal-by working. I never thought I would use the words "working" and "normal" in the same sentence, but I'll try anything to avoid facing reality. -- Gary Reilly
  • I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do. -- Margaret Mitchell
  • There is a big difference between hurt and harm. We all hurt sometimes in facing hard truths, but it makes us grow. It can be the source of huge growth. That is not harmful. Harm is when you damage someone. Facing reality is usually not a damaging experience, even though it can hurt. -- Henry Cloud
  • We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today. -- William Hague
  • Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening. -- Joyce Meyer
  • The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition. -- Kim Young-sam
  • All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality. -- Michele Bachmann
  • There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now. -- Jeffrey Sachs
  • Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease. -- Keith Miller
  • Perhaps the most powerful lesson other brands can learn from Nike is the need to act in accordance with the reality of the world we live in. In a mutually dependant, intimately connected global community facing several major crises, brands need to operate with an expanded definition of self-interest that includes the greater good. -- Simon Mainwaring
  • We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy. -- Mitch McConnell
  • Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. -- Karl A. Menninger
  • In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality. -- Peter Senge
  • The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda"¦ -- Michael Crichton
  • There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality. -- Storm Constantine
  • You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to. -- Billy Beane
  • In reality, finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States. -- David Leonhardt
  • The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does that leave him -- Michael Mori
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