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• I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

  A.S. King

  Optimism, Folly, Built

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• It's natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not.

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Warrior, Natural

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.118, Penguin UK

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• Lastly, anyone who believes in the possibility of total animal liberation while billions of humans continue to inhabit and decimate the planet is delusional. Only when most humans have died off will there be a chance to returning to a society that values all beings for who they are.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Believe, Animal, Chance

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• Your parents' views are, by current standards, out there. Getting in their faces about it would be needlessly disrespectful, but there's no reason for you to tiptoe through their delusional little terrarium as if you can't bend even one blade of grass.

  Carolyn Hax

  Views, Parent, Littles

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• The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.

  Frederick Franck

  Constructs, Infallible, Core

  "Echoes from the Bottomless Well". Book by Frederick Franck, p. 74, 1985.

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• There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Political, Elements, France

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2016). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.62, Basic Books

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• One more item for the delusional Miss Grundys still obtusely citing Reagan as their model of “niceness”: As governor of California, Reagan gave student protesters at Berkeley the finger. Remember that next time you ask yourself: “What would Reagan do?” People who are afraid of ideas whitewash Reagan like they whitewash Jesus. Sorry to break it to you, but the Reagan era did not consist of eight years of Reagan joking about his naps.

  Ann Coulter

  Jesus, Sorry, Ideas

  "Ho Ho Ho, Merry Imus!" by Ann Coulter, www.wnd.com. April 11, 2007.

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• Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.

  Anthony Storr

  World Religions, May, Belief

  Anthony Storr (2015). “Feet Of Clay: The Power and Charisma of Gurus”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.

  Peter Wolf

  Layers, Way, Firsts

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• I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It’s the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Real, Fall, Mean

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• When we follow our hearts, we follow the path of lessons we were meant to take and gain knowledge from. Sometimes the heart conquers over reason, and this may lead us to making serious mistakes, but these are mistakes written for us to grow. This is the real reason you hear 'FOLLOW YOUR HEART'. And the real reason you hear, 'FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS' is because our dreams expose us to our true multidimensional realities outside of this delusional realm we call reality. Our TRUE reality can be found in our dreams, where we are our true multidimensional selves.

  Suzy Kassem

  Dream, Real, Mistake

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• Anyone who believes that we can afford collectively what we cannot afford individually is delusional.

  Arnold Kling

  Believe

  Arnold Kling (2004). “Learning Economics”, p.295, Xlibris Corporation

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• I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Self Confidence, Way

  "Michael Arndt Discusses Toy Story 3". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 2, 2010.

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• Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so.

  Jack White

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jack White, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• Of all the views that are detached from reality, the most delusional is that Christians are persecuted in the U.S.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Christian, Reality, Views

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• The one thing I have found about Hollywood is it's a town full of people who believe in themselves, often to a degree where they're what you would call "delusional."

  Diablo Cody

  Believe, People, Hollywood

  "Diablo Cody Talks YOUNG ADULT, the EVIL DEAD Remake, SWEET VALLEY HIGH, Her Directorial Debut, and a Lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 16, 2011.

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• Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by abundant self-confidence, these folks aren't about to give up on actively managed funds themselves. A tad delusional? I think so. Picking the best-performing funds is 'like trying to predict the dice before you roll them down the craps table,' says an investment adviser in Boca Raton, FL. 'I can't do it. The public can't do it.'

  Paul Samuelson

  Giving Up, Self Confidence, Thinking

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• No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Happiness, Reality

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (Volume I)". Book by Christian Nestell Bovee, 1862.

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• Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have trouble grasping a simple fact: Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises-War and Shopping-simply will not work.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, War, Simple

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• Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.

  Scott Jurek

  Pain, Loss, Blessing

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.4, A&C Black

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• I used to walk down the street like I was a super star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.

  Lady Gaga

  Positive, Inspiring, Stars

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• When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

  Michael Lewis

  Writing, Thinking, Careers

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• High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.

  Kami Garcia

  School, Best Years Of Your Life, Drunk

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• I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here.

  Will Smith

  Crazy, Famous Inspirational, People

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• Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, People, Adults

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