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• They show conclusively that the calm was superficial and delusive, and that this deep-reaching contest was still, as before the adjustment of 1850, actually transforming the various institutions of society. —  Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2
• "It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive," he said in a long 1991 interview with Larry McCaffery, an English professor at San Diego State. —  The New Yorker
• We simply do not want our self-delusive little worlds to be upset by an insignificant irritant such as truth. —  Right Wing News
• [24] To him the powers of man seemed to be wholly unreliable and delusive, and only the special grace of God enables one to perceive any truth To approach God one must flee from one's self Neither reason nor any other function of the soul can conduct us to God, nor can we attain to a conception of Him as the supreme cause of all by regarding the manifold perfections and powers of nature, for such a process can give us only shadows. —  The Basis of Early Christian Theism
• Equally delusive are the prospects held out that the new system of cheap provincial justice will be a change unconditionally for the better. —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1

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