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"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality."
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"Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists. It is a dangerously false illusion."

"Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar."

"Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience."

"Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen."

"What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic."

"Magic and miracle they are nothing but manipulation of sight and heart."

"Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks."
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"I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans."

"I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it."

"Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live."

"The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot."
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