Jim Morrison

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

American Singer

Morgan Freeman

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

American Actor

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Indian Leader

Lonnie Johnson

Especially when you have a lot of technology you're developing as a small company, trying to protect that technology is a real problem.

American Inventor

Yogi Berra

If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.

American Baseball Player

Mark Lanegan

In real life, I'm far more lighthearted than I come across on the records.

American Musician

W. E. B. Du Bois

How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!

American Writer

Oscar Wilde

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Irish Poet

Dakota Fanning

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

American Actress

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

American Boxer

Use 'real' to stress that something physically exists and isn't an illusion or fantasy.

Concrete Existence

Emphasize that emotions or experiences are valid since they have tangible effects.

Emotional Validity

'Real' highlights the authentic nature of an item, not necessarily its price or brand status.

Authenticity Over Cost

Suggests the item or document has been verified to be genuine, not a copy.

Verification

Indicates materials or ingredients come from nature, without artificial additives.

Natural Sources

Implies that a product is likely better for health due to its non-artificial nature.

Healthier Choice

Highlights that the situation requires immediate attention, not to be underestimated.

Urgent Issues

Clarifies that a situation is as bad or difficult as it is claimed to be, without overstating.

No Exaggeration

In informal conversation, 'real' can intensify the following word for emphasis.

Colloquial Intensifier

Use sparingly in formal contexts; 'really' is generally preferred in those cases.

Informal Expressions

Refers to the undeniable difficulties or practicalities in everyday life.

Life's Hardships

Reminds to stay grounded and not get lost in ideals or fantasy when discussing life.

Avoid Fancy Talk

 but in reality, they invariably turn out to be drawing energy from some external source. Even if engineers could somehow design a machine that didn't violate the first law of thermodynamics, it still wouldn't work in the real world because of the second law. The second law of thermodynamics

Why don't perpetual...

 are qualitatively different from those based on real experiences. This suggests that creating a false story about a personal topic takes work and results in a different pattern of language use. A technology known as linguistic text analysis has helped to identify four such common patterns

The language of lying —...

 in understanding how our brains work by monitoring them in real time with instruments like fMRI and PET scanners. When people are hooked up to these machines, tasks, such as reading or doing math problems, each have corresponding areas of the brain where activity can be observed.

How playing an...

 literally out of the water. That was just unreal and I wasn't up there for too long before 'Poof' I was right back down underwater again. He was getting frustrated. He was and so at that point, I think he said, OK, fine, I'm just going to put you on my face.

A whale saved my life PIPE...

 insight, peace, and steadfastness. From the time he got up from under that tree to the moment of his death as an old man, the Buddha taught people how to become right speech, right goals, a mind focused on what is real, and a heart focused on loving others.

The five major world...

 rooted in the nonsensical logic of the situations described. So on the one hand, it's easy to recognize the Kafkaesque in today's world. We rely on increasingly convoluted systems of administration that have real consequences on every aspect of our lives.

What makes something...

 unilaterally seek to change the rules of the global order. So apart from all of that, it's just fine and dandy, the U.S.-China relationship. No real problems there. The challenge, though, is given those deep-rooted feelings,

Are China and the US...

 and that they outlive their creators. Maybe biological life is just a passing phase. Well, within the next 15 years, we could start seeing real spectroscopic information from promising nearby planets

Questions No One Knows...

 At first glance, the Arctic feels brutally devoid of life, though a select group of animals have figured out a way to thrive. But the real force here works quietly underfoot.

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