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Results from Cole's Quotables:

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.: Richard Bach, Illusions [1977]
Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.: Keller
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all - except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer.: Gerald Weinberg, "The Psychology of Computer Programming"
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.: David Hume (1711 - 1776)
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.: Alan Watts
...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"
Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.: Unknown
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)

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