"It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth."

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Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.55, Courier Corporation

Mary Antin

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“A life of fulfillment is one in which we put urgency in its place and remember that the ultimate target is to spend our lives doing the things we believe are most important to us.”
“In Australia there are not limits on what you can believe but there are limits on how you can behave. It's called the law, and no one is above it.”

Source : "Science or Fiction?" by Natasha Bita, www.theaustralian.com.au. November 20, 2009.
“The â€˜equilibriumâ€™ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. Itâ€™s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.”
“God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on earth, and the liberty of men will not be complete, unless it will have completely annihilated the inauspicious fiction of a heavenly master.”
“People try to be more edgy, or write about that first explosive meeting between two people in a club, but not so much the long-term issues; I don't know how to write a song about teenage heartbreak anymore.”

Source : "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.
“twice I have lived forever in a smile”
“Either we, as a society, decide that copyright is the greater value to society, and take active steps to give up private communications as a concept. Either that, or we decide that the ability to communicate in private, without constant monitoring by authorities, has the greater value - in which case copyright will have to give way.”

Source : "'Avast ye scurvy file sharers!': Interview with Swedish Pirate Party leader Rickard Falkvinge". Wikinews Interview, June 20, 2006.
“You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.”

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