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The soul is an illusion.
- Harry Dean Stanton
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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
- Francis Spufford
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The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
- Michael Flanders
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With Tinder and all these other things, there's always this kind of illusion with infinite choices. There's something very cool about saying, 'Oh, I actually really care about this person, and I want to commit to loving this person and being loyal to this person.' You can't get that from the kind of infinite multiple choices that are out there.
- John Legend
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They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.
- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
- David Knopfler
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Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.
- Paul Schrader
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The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
- Watkin Tudor Jones
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This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.
- Anohni
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What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
- Max Jacob
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Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.
- Mario Vargas Llosa
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The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
- Charles Horton Cooley
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
- Alva Myrdal
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We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.
- George Harrison
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There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.
- Jihae
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I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can experience it across different religions. I am fascinated by philosophy of Advaita and philosophy of unity. We have to get over the illusion that God is different from us.
- Amish Tripathi
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With photography, you've captured a moment time - it's that moment only - and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It's about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire.
- Mickalene Thomas
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For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
- Emil Cioran
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I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.
- Henry Thomas
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Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
- Mario Vargas Llosa
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I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.
- Erez Lieberman Aiden
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Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?
- Criss Angel
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A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside people's minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting their patterns down so I know how to create the illusion that I get inside their brain.
- Criss Angel
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Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that 'choice' used to mean something different from selecting options from menus?
- Lynne Truss
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History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and history is where delusions play out.
- David Means
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When I write fiction, I have the illusion of being able to control these fictional worlds and these characters, and to make them say what I want them to say. Of course, the problem is that it is an illusion, and by the end of it you realize that you're not in control of it at all; the characters have taken over, and they're driving the vehicle.
- Ruth Ozeki
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The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
- Lawrence M. Krauss
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Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
- Herman Wouk
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I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
- William Scott
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Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.
- Jurgen Moltmann
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Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
- Arthur Goldberg
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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
- Horace Greeley
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I'm under no illusion. There are lots of male singers out there with raspy voices.
- Lewis Capaldi
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I always try to manipulate the eye when I'm dressing myself or someone else. I don't have an hourglass figure, so I'm always trying to give the illusion that I have one; bringing the eye to the waistline by adding a belt or having a heavier print at the bottom or at the top helps define your shape.
- Ashley Nell Tipton
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
- Kara Walker
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There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond.
- Tom Shadyac
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There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.
- Lee Strobel
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The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.
- Joan Didion
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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
- Talib Kweli
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It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
- Pierre Bayle
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There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.
- Meir Kahane
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'Three Billboards,' which is not based on a true story but does have some reality flavoring, must appear worthy of elected office in some way. This was, at first, the illusion presented by the people running the campaigns and, in turn, over the years, has become the custom for lots of us.
- Wesley Morris
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The Oriental thinks everything in the sense-perceptible world is 'maya'; everything perceived by our senses and all thinking connected with sense perceptions is 'maya,' the great illusion. The only reality is the reality of the soul. What a human being achieves in his or her soul is reality.
- Rudolf Steiner
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There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
- Tony Kushner
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If people want to follow an illusion that you don't have to pay your way, you don't have to measure up, then there are serious consequences for any country.
- Enda Kenny
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As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
- John C. Hawkes
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I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.
- Rick Renzi
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I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Sydney Smith
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I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.
- Christina Baker Kline
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It's nice to sort of walk in and at least create the illusion that you are, or your character is, a well-rounded human being, a complete person. Especially when you're playing these impressive, high-functioning professionals. You feel like you have to come in sort of guns blazing.
- Luke Roberts
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The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.
- Guy Verhofstadt
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Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.
- Barry Ritholtz
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I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature.
- Victor Salva
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I'm a huge John Hughes fan, and I grew up in the '80s, when his films came out. So, my introduction to what you'd call 'cinema love,' that illusion of love, was 'Sixteen Candles' and Molly Ringwald.
- Nicolas Winding Refn
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When your mother dies in your arms, your perception of life changes. I think the whole thing is just a fleeting illusion.
- Gaspar Noe
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Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion.
- Lionel Shriver
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I think of makeup as more like a design, decoration, or jewelry. I mean, it's literally paint; it's art. I don't prefer to use it as concealing anything because it influences the illusion of standardized perfection.
- Indya Moore
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A woman should be an illusion.
- Ian Fleming
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Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
- Albert Claude
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'Illusion' is a story of God's love and our hunger to find him when we're separated from him. If I can paint a picture of two people still in love after 40 years, that's a pretty good message.
- Frank Peretti
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Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
- David Cronenberg
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In 2004, the iPod was a novelty, and tablet computers were a dream. Now we take for granted that we can see whatever we want whenever and wherever we want to see it, be it 'Grand Illusion' or 'Duck Dynasty.'
- Terry Teachout
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For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
- Oren Peli
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We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.
- Daniel Gilbert
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I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.
- Sebastian Junger
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Beyond self-driving cars, I think all airplanes should go pilotless. Get the pilots out of there. Even better, have no cockpit at all, and turn it into a nice lounge with a bar. Why give people the illusion of control with a steering wheel?
- Steve Jurvetson
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Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
- Margaret Cho
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The science-denial machinery is a serious adversary, and it has a big advantage over real science: it does not need to win its dispute with real science; it just needs to create a public illusion that there is a dispute.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
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You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
- Peter Abrahams
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The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a matter of denouncing the illusion, the false infinite, the infinity of religion and all of the theologico-erotic-oneiric myths in which it is expressed.
- Gilles Deleuze
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Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.
- Doug Henning
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We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.
- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
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Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.
- Wole Soyinka
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Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
- Scott Adams
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A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.
- Ben Katchor
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I'm not under any illusion that I'm an A-lister; I don't think I'm even on the alphabet scale. But I'm in people's houses every day - I'm there when they wake up and there when they go to bed. So people think they know who I am. And, to a certain extent, they do.
- Rylan Clark-Neal
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If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
- Marguerite Young
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Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years... Dayton isn't working. Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords.
- Franjo Tudjman
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I used to have this illusion that time and remote areas prepare you for the world. Our moms used to think that kind of thing. Well, it doesn't prepare you for the world at all!
- Jim Harrison
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People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
- Jose Saramago
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Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.
- Stana Katic
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No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
- Marguerite Duras
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Often, I feel like a cheap imitation aesthetically looks better to me than the real, out-of-reach thing. It's amazing that brands create a whole illusion of exclusivity and luxury, and then you can go get the $5 version of a $30,000 thing and feel the same way but have a cool little secret.
- Hunx
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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
- Publilius Syrus
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I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature is that it gives us this very attractive illusion that there is meaning in the world - things connect.
- Nicole Krauss
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I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.
- Jon Krakauer
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Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it.
- Martin Jacques
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I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
- Tom T. Hall
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Love is not blind. Romance is. Romance is the most dangerous thing. Romance is like an illusion. It shows you things, and you hear things that don't exist.
- Hrithik Roshan
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I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
- Alan Arkin
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I find that if I interact more, the crowd gets way more into the music. We also have a full live show happening, and I have lighting crew that travels around with me. We've got this Infinity Prism thing, which is lots of fun. It's an optical illusion device that we carry around.
- Flume
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Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day.
- Rafael Nadal
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I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous because it provides the illusion that things have been fixed without the substance.
- Bethany McLean
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There is no 'us' and 'them'; it's an illusion. We are all human beings, and we all have a responsibility to support one another and to discover ways of wresting the power from the very, very few people who control all the cash and all the property.
- Roger Waters
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As a clinician, I would never want to be coercive in relation to a patient, nor do I harbor the illusion that as a physician I am capable of forcing someone to change their behavior, no matter how detrimental to their health.
- Drew Pinsky
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It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.
- Sarah McLachlan
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I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.
- Hugh Leonard
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There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't want to know anything about their personal life, and the illusion, or whatever it is, the shape-shiftery magic stuff that they do, which is my joy.
- Rupert Friend
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
- Lewis H. Lapham
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The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach.
- Martin Jacques
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