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Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality. ↗

— Jacque Fresco

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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world. ↗

— Garet Garrett

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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

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But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors. ↗

— Jim McKay

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I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

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My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

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We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. ↗

— Michael Moore

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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

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I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge. ↗

— Martin Short

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