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I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be agressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me. (Quote by - Michael Jordan)

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one. (Quote by - Brad Bird)

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. (Quote by - Stanley Kubrick)

Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness. (Quote by - Neil Kurshan)

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. (Quote by - Yasutani Roshi)

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. (Quote by - Henri Nouwen)

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)

I grew up with an idealized version of the sport, that people do it because they love horses. I guess that's just a romantic illusion. (Quote by - James Hastie)

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup. (Quote by - Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge (Quote by - Daniel J. Boorstin)

What can this piece of paper do; imagine (Quote by - Alamgir Hashmi)

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat. (Quote by - Field Marshall Lord Wavell)

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. (Quote by - George Jean Nathan)

I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way. (Quote by - Priscilla Presley)

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. (Quote by - Marguerite Duras)

Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts. (Quote by - Gutzkow)

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. (Quote by - David Cronenberg)

Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal. (Quote by - Jean-Paul Sartre)

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time (Quote by - Karl Kraus)

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. (Quote by - Scott Adams)

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils. (Quote by - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn)

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion (Quote by - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn)

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life. (Quote by - Desiderius Erasmus)

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