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"Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out."
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"My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional."

"Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion."

"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

"As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her."

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

"There was nothing Mandy had wanted more than to give her full attention to the world of Personifications and ignore those who ignored her in society. She'd wanted to talk out loud to Alecto, to have conversations in front of other ordinary people. Unfortunately, to do that in front of ordinary people would only prove her insanity, and although Mandy was naA ve at times, she wasn't stupid."

"The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation."

"To object/protest (vandha), create difficulties (vachka), and wrong beliefs (agnan) " these three are the reasons the world's delusion remains. It is to eradicate just these three things that all the worldly scriptures have been created."

"You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion."

"Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out."
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"They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home."

"Women tend to have recognition and peer group support - recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it."

"And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same."

"More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad."

"What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent."

"It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge."

"Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do."
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