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I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

A cause a day keeps reality away.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

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.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

I have no words for my reality.

Reality is an acquired taste.