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No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
Author:
Ellen White
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If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.
Author:
Robert Walpole
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I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
Author:
Walter Wager
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Author:
Carl Sagan
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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Author:
Carl Sagan
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Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Author:
Jim Rohn
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And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
Author:
Guru Nanak
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Author:
Don Marquis
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You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
Author:
Gustav Mahler
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Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
Author:
Charles Mackay
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It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
Author:
Rose Macaulay
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When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
Author:
Daniel Lewis
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Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.
Author:
James Levine
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The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.
Author:
Barbara Kruger
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The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
Author:
Derek Jarman
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
Author:
William Inge
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There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
Author:
David Hume
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Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
Author:
Al Goldstein
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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
Author:
Marilyn French
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The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
Author:
Arthur Erickson
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Truth is always a delusion.
Author:
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.
Author:
Hart Crane
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We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.
Author:
Kevin Costner
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Mythical consciousness weaves through time, transcending the confines of natural logic, urging us to find strength not in the measurable, but in the mystical echo of our collective imagination.
Author:
Synopsis Hallwood
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Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
Author:
Kim Cattrall
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
Author:
Ludwig Borne
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
Author:
Bodhidharma
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
Author:
Bodhidharma
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Author:
Bodhidharma
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I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.
Author:
Alexander Alekhine
