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"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality."
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"Trying to get prosperity through prophet offering is running after shadows."

"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."

"Never for one minute have I taken you for reality . . . You are a lie, you are my illness, you are a phantom . . . You are my hallucination. You are the incarnation of myself . . . of my thoughts and feelings, but only the nastiest and stupidest of them."

"Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world."

"As long as one is ruled by illusion, one's thinking process is also illusory and that is nothing but misery. In Gnanis' [the enlightened one's] language, there is no such thing as happiness or unhappiness."

"When they say that, 'God takes avatar (reincarnates)' is incorrect. He is known as an avatari when last two or three incarnations (before Moksha) remain. God does not have the ability at all to do karma! Man does not have that ability either. It is due to illusion that he feels 'I did it'!"

"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."

"Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks."
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"The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot."

"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."

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

"I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans."
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