If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time. ― Edith Wharton

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The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality. ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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I never had an interest in being a mayor ’cause that’s a real job. You have to produce. That’s why I was able to be a senator for 36 years. — Joe Biden

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The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

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Everything I do, I do it for somebody I've never met before, something in the great beyond. That's my primary relationship, really, is with something divine. I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth.

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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for it is counterfeit. — Hosea Ballou

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Thanksgiving is for real Americans not Indians. We founded this Christian nation. Why if it wasn’t for the God-fearing pilgrims, the natives would still be running around in loin cloths shooting at things with their arrows.

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The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go. ― Shannon L. Alder

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Real intelligence must be fiercely capable of investigating every aspect of existence, including the very process of knowledge that we call science .

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