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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.

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.

Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.

I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it.

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.