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Letter "I" » illusions
«Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.»
«Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions»
«Official truths are often powerful illusions»
«Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.»
«The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.»
Author: Robert Lynd
(Essayist, Journalist)
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«The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes»
«Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Politics
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«My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress, I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!»
Author: Marilyn Monroe
(Actress)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Learning,
Talent
| Keywords:
actress, cheap, illusions, rate, The Actress, third rate, wearing
«The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Action
| Keywords:
action, dreamer, illusions, one-person, The Dreamers, The Man, The One
«One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.»
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