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Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.Barbara Jordan
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The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.Tariq Ramadan
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.Patrick Henry
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Reality TV is flat with the anti-cultural imperatives of business: cheap to make, it does ideological work even when it is not giving guru status to dull business people. It fits in with capitalism's anti-mythic myth: the idea that we have liberated ourselves from the dangerous illusions allegedly propagated by art and politics.Mark Fisher
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Social media is incredible: it creates a community that I'm really proud to be a part of, but it also creates illusions and a false reality, and it's difficult to grow up with that.Ella Woodward
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Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.John Langdon
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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.Howard Nemerov
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The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.Antonio Gramsci
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Don't get me wrong, I'm under no illusions, I've got a very old-school, mainstream leaning to the way I present my comedy because I actually like jokes and don't just do observational stuff.Lee Mack
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Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right.Howard Rheingold
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I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.Hans Blix
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My father was a veteran. He fought in World War II. He was a patriot. On the other hand, he had no illusions whatsoever about how Uncle Sam had mistreated him and other black soldiers.John Edgar Wideman
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About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.Keith Richards
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.Elizabeth Bowen
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Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.Steven Pinker
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I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.Gary Numan
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I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.Stephen Fry
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.Mark Twain
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The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.Robert Wilson Lynd
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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.Sigmund Freud
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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.Simone Weil
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There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.Martin Seligman
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I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.Bob Dylan
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I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.Haile Selassie
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Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do that, then everything's going to be okay.' My work differs in that I don't offer quick solutions and simple explanations.John Bradshaw
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Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions.Richard Dawkins
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.Paul Cezanne
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These false barriers that we've erected of space and race, all these illusions that we've allowed to infect us like toxins, we've got to rid ourselves of that. We are a better nation when we are ultimately united in a common purpose and a common cause.Cory Booker
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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.Muhammad Iqbal
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The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.Daniel Gilbert
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I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.H. P. Lovecraft
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Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.Martin Seligman
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I've always been a fan of martial arts, even before I did jiu-jitsu tournaments. I did point karate tournaments and wrestled in high school. To me, it was just an evolution and mixed martial arts was the next step. I just wanted to compete and train in it. I had no illusions of it being a paying gig.Frank Mir
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While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.Yayoi Kusama
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For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.Breckin Meyer
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.Daniel J. Boorstin
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He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.Mikhail Bakunin
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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.Joseph Conrad
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I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.Gord Downie
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The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.James Hillman
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I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.R. A. Salvatore
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I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.David Blaine
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I have no illusions about running. I hate running. If I could feel as good as I felt at 30 without running, I wouldn't do it, but that's not the way it works! So - no pain, no gain.Melvin Van Peebles
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It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men have come to receive the energy which they must have to live, should be made up of a tissue of illusions.Emile Durkheim
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When you look back over 100 years when stop-motion was really at the dawn of cinema, a lot of the ways it developed was you had stage magicians who were looking to bring their illusions to life, and one of the ways they did that, at the time, was through cinema and stop-motion. They developed these processes.Travis Knight
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I wish I'd understood the realities of working in the commercial theatre. I went in with a lot of illusions. I thought it would be this lovely happy family trying to make art - boy, was I wrong. I didn't know how cut-throat and mean it was. That phrase 'theatre community,' in my experience in New York, is a complete oxymoron.Stephen Schwartz
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