"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."

West, Rebecca on conversation
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"When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses."

Russell, Walter on conflict   

"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."

Weil, Simone on attachment
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"The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action."

Wilde, Oscar on illusion
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"The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion."

Unknown, Source on reality   

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on obstacles
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Einstein, Albert on reality
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"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."

Chuang Tzu on control
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"Radical simply means grasping things at the root."

Davis, Angela Y. on radicals   

"This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us."

Herzen, Alexander on socializing and socialism   

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

Beattie, Melody on gratitude
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"People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck."

Kleiser, Grenville on luck   

"Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory."

Walters, J. Donald on acceptance
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"Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love."

Lombardi, Vince on humility
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"A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far."

Forbes, B. C. on price
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"Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth."

Edwards, Tryon on doubt   

"The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production."

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc on creativity   

"Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience."

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc on genius
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"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius."

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc on patience
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"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."

Greer, Germaine on security
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"People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied. And their futile reward, a word of praise from a handful of people, they win at such a cost -- so many late nights, such loss of sleep, sweetest of all things, and so much sweat and anguish... their health deteriorates, their looks are destroyed, they suffer partial or total blindness, poverty, ill-will, denial of pleasure, premature old age and early death."

Erasmus, Desiderius on scholars and scholarship   

"If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on control
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"The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency."

Crisp, Quentin on control
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"It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose."

Fenton, James on faces   

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

Unknown, Source on confusion
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"Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood."

Miller, Henry on confusion
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"If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius."

Leissner, Larry on confusion
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"I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed."

Frost, Robert on confusion
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"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age."

Einstein, Albert on confusion
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"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks."

Boone, Daniel on confusion
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"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on control
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"Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to."

Billings, Josh on control
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"Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it."

Bentham, John on control   

"Never let the other fellow set the agenda."

Baker, James on control
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"Self mastery comes through denial of the little things."

Unknown, Source on master   

"If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody."

Ansari on master   

"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning"

Angelis, Barbara De on purpose
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"Publicity is the life of this culture. Without publicity capitalism could not survive and at the same time publicity is its dream."

Berger, John on publicity