“Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.”
~ Malcolm X
More on getting real:
“The real war will never get in the books.
~ Walt Whitman
“Science is a wonderful way of getting out what’s real.”
~ Nick Sagan
“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
~ Les Brown
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
~ Lao Tzu
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Get Real
used for telling someone that they should try to understand the true facts of a situation and not hope for what is impossible. “Get real! He’s never going to give you the money.”
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