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«We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.»
Author: George F. Kennan
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concepts, democratization, far-off, hamper, hampered, hampering, hampers, idealistic, not far, objectives, raising, slogans, unreal, vague
«You have to be a little unreal to be in this business»
«With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping ''homeliness'' entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all ''sentiment'' is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called ''the Public',' the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.»
Author: Wyndham Lewis
(Artist)
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advertised, agency, caption, captions, coarsely, colossal, creeping, disguised, familiarity, homeliness, manufactured, materialistic, monstrous, propaganda, sentiment, sickly, sweet tooth, The Agency, The Sweet, tooth, unreal
«Who loves not a false imagining, an unreal character in us; but looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our natures - not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Angel, Divine, false, ideal, imagining, imperfections, rubbish, The Angel, unreal
«The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to fin»
Author: Alfred Adler
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Mankind,
Mind
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assumptions, capture, chaotic, fictions, fin, fins, flux, incomprehensible, scheme, serving, unreal, urge
«To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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dramatic, dramatic performance, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, finality, followers, frightfulness, gesture, grandiose, grim, lighthearted, make-believe, mask, participating, selves, solemn, spectacle, staged, tasks, theatrical, theatricals, unreal
«The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.»
«Unreal City, / Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, / A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, / I had not thought death had undone so many.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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brown, City of London, flowed, fog, The Brown, undone, unreal
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