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• After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

  Daniel Kahneman

  World, Facts, Accepting

  "This much I know: Daniel Kahneman". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2012.

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• I'm an idealist without illusions.

  John F. Kennedy

  Political, Politics, Idealist

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Design, Purpose, Bases

  "A Universe Without Purpose" by Lawrence M. Krauss, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

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• There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

  Tony Kushner

  Play, Way, Theater

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• These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

  John Lennon

  Artist, Idols, People

  "John Lennon: The Last Interview". Interview with Jonathan Cott, www.rollingstone.com. December 23, 2010.

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• I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.

  Hugh Leonard

  Eye, Wife, One Day

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• The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

  Walter Lippmann

  Peace, Wall, War

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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

  Peace, Military, War

  "Searchlights and Nightingales". Book by Robert Wilson Lynd, 1939.

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• There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Effort, Trying, Sound

  "Cellist Yo Yo Ma: His career and music". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2001.

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• Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.

  Ian MacKaye

  Mean, Weekend, Creating

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• I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

  Steve Martin

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  "All about my father". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.

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• Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

  Andre Maurois

  Titles, Lost, Novel

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• Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

  Joyce Maynard

  Perfection, World, Purity

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• I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

  Alexander McQueen

  People, Mind, Looks

  "God save McQueen" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2003.

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• I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

  Mike Mills

  Believe, Reality, Documentaries

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• As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

  Alan Moore

  Long, Mad, Important

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• Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

  Alan Moore

  Growing Up, School, Boys

  "Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

  Iris Murdoch

  Life, Reality, Tasks

  In 'The Times' 15 April 1983 'Profile'

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• You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

  Rafael Nadal

  Play, Tennis, Ranking

  "The Illusionist" by Peter Bodo, www.tennis.com. June 03, 2011.

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• A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

  George Jean Nathan

  Women, Wife, Firsts

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Marriage, Fathers Day

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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

  United States, Problem, Crime

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• Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

  George Orwell

  Work, Progress, Disappointing

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

  Luis Palau

  Disillusionment, Disillusioned, Disillusion

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• Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Evil, Add, Investing

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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