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Absentee: A missing golfing peg - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

In heaven all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When one person is missing the whole world seems empty. - Pat Schweibert

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. - Groucho Marx

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

Summit: What you do to a column of numbers with a calculator - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it. - Paulo Coelho

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower. - Mitch Hedberg

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. - Cavett Robert

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments. - Steven Wright

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World. - George Best

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of payments. - Earl Wilson

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

Yesterday I parked my car in a tow-away zone... when I came back the entire area was missing. - Steven Wright

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself. After all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. - Dame Edna Everage

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. - Flip Wilson

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. - Kay Knudsen

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off. - Richard Schiff

Happiness is the default state. It's what's there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life. - Naval Ravikant

The problem is that we always look for the missing piece of the puzzle instead of finding a place for the one in our hand. - Alina Radoi

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of the missing drop. - Mother Teresa

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins