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“I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
“What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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