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'The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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These false barriers that we've erected of space and race, all these illusions that we've allowed to infect us like toxins, we've got to rid ourselves of that. We are a better nation when we are ultimately united in a common purpose and a common cause. Cory Booker

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition. Dan Flavin

Broken Light Space Down Composition Could Crucial Knew Real Room Realizing Electric Electric Light Planting Illusions Actual Played

Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest. Dan Gertler

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My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America. Diane Paulus

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When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me. Doug Henning

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness. Edwin Louis Cole

Visions Greatness Same Grandeur Illusions

Social media is incredible: it creates a community that I'm really proud to be a part of, but it also creates illusions and a false reality, and it's difficult to grow up with that. Ella Woodward

Reality Social Media Community Difficult Incredible Part Also Proud False Up Social Really Creates Grow Grow Up Media Illusions

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

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Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions. Henry R. Luce

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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Heart Trust World Thy Calls Therefore Illusions

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that. Hillary Clinton

Diplomacy Nothing Easy About Illusions Fast

Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids. Jane Pauley

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Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do that, then everything's going to be okay.' My work differs in that I don't offer quick solutions and simple explanations. John Bradshaw

Work You People Simple Thinking Everything Books Okay Solutions Give Well Tidy Self-Help Quick Offer Dupe Going Just Formulas Explanations Then Really Many Illusions Neat Differs

Something I've learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with somebody, call them up. Very few musicians have any illusions about genre boundaries. They are useful descriptive terms, but they don't really bind musicians. John Darnielle

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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. Joseph Conrad

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There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out. Martin Seligman

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We all need illusions. That's why we love movies. Monica Bellucci

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