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Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
- Art Buchwald
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If everyone demanded peace
instead of another television set,
then there'd be peace.
- John Lennon
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
- Woody Allen
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In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
I was so jazzed about sobering up
and starting a new life;
I had to stop at a bar
to get a drink just to calm down.
- the television series Glee
Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
Martyrs cannot be silenced.
- the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Is it bigger than breadbox?
- the early television show Twenty Questions
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people
than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour
looking at my face on their television screens.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)
Thanks to television, for the first time
the young are seeing history made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
To deny the facts would be illogical.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it.
The only real security that
a man can have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a firm believer in the people.
If given the truth, they can be depended upon
to meet any national crisis.
The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Life is a Book of Riddles,
with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Even in the Christian religion,
much of its real meaning is hidden by words
that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
- Ernest Holmes
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
When our thoughts - which bring actions -
are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white,
we are in a living hell.
That is as real as hell will ever be.
- George Washington Carver
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
America did not invent human rights.
In a very real sense, it is the other way around.
Human rights invented America.
- Jimmy Carter
The real us is pure love, pure light
- don Miguel Ruiz
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
True religion is real living;
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
What is real is beyond all reach.
- Julian Green
Anyone can be passionate, but
it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon,
it will be an entire nation.
For all of us must work to put him there.
- John F. Kennedy
My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals
relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship.
They will be loving to each other,
but not being possessive of each other.
They will be sharing with each other
all their joys and all their blessings,
but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating,
thinking of enslaving the other person.
- Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Each one has to find his peace from within.
And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All that is real is seen with the heart.
- Vivian Greene
The mind of man is continuously unfolding
into a greater recognition of its real plan
in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes
You cannot lose your real treasure.
- Osho
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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