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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
He couldn't even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn't yell at those who weren't exactly sane themselves, he told himself.
My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.
The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that's what makes music real.
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
The first goal is for the clinician to find the patient, and the patient to find the clinician, as both are required for a real alliance.
Work needs to be the single biggest requirements. No more waivers as this administration has done. There should be real work eligibility.
They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.
Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.
Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.
Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.
To play for Barcelona, means to have an opportunity for a brilliant career. But to reach the top of it, you have to play for Real Madrid.
It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.
Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
I feel that we should always be a real friend, always, even to those who chose to be fake. Not because they are nice but because you are.
You cannot create in another's life against their will, but if it is something they want, your thoughts are a real force that helps them.
There will be hoards of vampire bats descending on Beverly Hills.... We'll see if they can find any real flesh to puncture. I don't know.
A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.
I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.
Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.
Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.
I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.
The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.
Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs'
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?
Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermes factory. Sh*t is real. You're not going to find a chink. It's 100,000 per cent Jimi Hendrix.
Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.
Real assistance is to help people to help themselves. We can't do everything for everybody, but there is room for all who try to make it.
When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.
There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.
You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.
I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.
One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.
The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).
Romantic comedies are there to give us dreams and butterflies, but what we can create in our own lives could be not only better but real.
I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you want it to be.
Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.
In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.
It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.
I think real true success is when, yes, you have reached the goal, reached yours, but it's how many others you have helped along the way.
Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.
The real test of love is when a person—including you—can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.