"Recognize reality even when you don't like it-especially when you don't like it."

-- Charlie Munger

#Reality Quotes

“My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.63, BoD – Books on Demand
“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.”
“You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well.”

Source : Jennifer Capriati's Pilot Pen Tennis Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. August 23, 2001.
“Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life.”
“The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.”
“Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on earth to rule all of humanity.”
“THE NOTE said the first clue was "in the big one." I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I saw no pattern. Not such a surprise, since I was missing the puzzle chromosome and couldn't do puzzles designed for nine-year-olds.”
“It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.”

Source : Eleanor Farjeon (1960). “A nursery in the nineties”

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