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I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something.

~Claire Cameron

Topics: Because Conscious Delusion Least Lifetime Means Settle Something Successful I Can

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There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Because Delusion Live People Simply Who Will

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When all else fails there's always delusion.

~Conan O'Brien

Topics: Always Delusion Else Fails When All Else Fails

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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.

~Dan Gilbert

Topics: Build Delusion Get Measure Only Over Something Value View Want Wealth You Your Ahead

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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.

~Daniel Day-Lewis

Topics: About Always Avoid Back Bed Better Business Complete Delusion Get Go Gone Inevitability Just May Need Out Sense Thing Work

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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.

~David Hume

Topics: Against Any Delusion Education Found Good Good Sense History Learning Men Miracle Number Secure Sense Sufficient Themselves Us

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Vietnam and Iraq are part of the same national trauma and delusion; we folded the war up when Reagan became president and unpacked it with Bush.

~David Means

Topics: Became Bush Delusion Folded Iraq National Part President Reagan Same Trauma Up Vietnam War

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History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and history is where delusions play out.

~David Means

Topics: America Big Country Delusion Delusional Delusions Giant History Illusion Just Out Play Where

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Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.

~David Ulevitch

Topics: Better Company Create Delusion Depression Distracting Doing Expectations Growing Hard Higher Ironic Just Make Makes Maybe People People Say Running Say Silicon Silicon Valley Sort Stakes Successful Valley Why Win You

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For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

~Deepak Chopra

Topics: Altruism Art Beauty Been Beings Courage Delusion Experiences Go God He Honor Human Human Beings Itself Love Man Obsessed Relationships Set Social Straw Subjective Then Thousands Thousands Of Years Together Truth Up Years

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