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Find your sleep sweet spot to protect your brain as you age, study suggestsToward the end, Williams also experienced delusional looping. – Schneider Williams	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s delusional to think that ordinary people wouldn’t care much about inflation if only the media stopped discussing it. People notice when they pay more for groceries, rent, gasoline, pet food, diapers. It is painful. It is unsettling. – Chip Somodevilla/Getty	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We'll see what terms the Russians offer, and I'm sure that it's a good thing that they're going to talk. But if anything, what this may show is that Vladimir Putin expected an easy win here. He thought he would waltz into the capital, into Kyiv.In his own delusional rendering of history, Ukrainians and Russians are the same, and he would overthrow this government and might even be welcomed as a liberator. And of course, the reality has been something quite different. – Condoleezza Rice	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
More children die from cancer, drownings and car accidents daily than are dying from Covid, yet people are still driving on the roads and swimming in pools, it is time to take a step back and acknowledge that there is more damage being done to the children through prolonged restrictions than benefit … It is time to transition from a state of delusional fear and move forward confidently knowing the pandemic is not over, but the emergency certainly is. – Nicole Saphier	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Michael Avenatti, this lawyer we just heard about today – we did not party with him and there are no pictures of us with Don Lemon in The Hamptons – but he just went to jail and we are so happy he went to jail, they pushed this guy on America and … they were deluded by their delusional loathing of Donald Trump. – Greg Gutfeld	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
President Trumps recorded conversation with Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger is more than a pathetic, rambling, delusional rant, his disgraceful effort to intimidate an elected official into deliberately changing and misrepresenting the legally confirmed vote totals in his state strikes at the heart of our democracy and merits nothing less than a criminal investigation. – Dick Durbin	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
While my love for my husband was steady and my trust in him absolute, I was clearly delusional. I believed I knew him. I believed we had the same definition of love, grieving him is an equal amount of heartbreak and rage. – Paulina Porizkova	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I don't think any of us were delusional in thinking that we would be able to go in and pass these massive health care bills that we campaigned on, people in these front-line seats, in particular, are acutely aware that our jobs depend on us doing a good job and being effective representatives. – Katie Hill	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Clearly, youre not getting away with this, these women are clearly delusional. – Kenna Quinet	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Its not history unless you tell the whole thing. History has been fragmented selectively to paint a picture that is delusional really. – Doris Cooper Anthony	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I think a lot of these people who over promise and imagine that they can do things well beyond what anybody else has done so far, they are possessed of a certain delusional quality — a certain kind of narcissistic belief in their own powers, that's become, in a way, kind of my stock and trade : to examine those characters,'cause there's something glorious about that. – Alex Gibney	Found on CNN 5 years ago
She is delusional, has hallucinations( and) is confused about facts. She has the mental capacity of a toddler. – Savina Genoese Zerbi	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's delusional of some United States elites to think that China is the largest beneficiary of the international system since they mistakenly blame China for the US' own problems. China has realized its development through hard work, not by taking advantage of the international system. – United States	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There are several pathways we observe : antisocial individuals who are part of a gang, depressed and despondent persons who are highly distressed over a grievance and believe they have no future, and a small group of persons with severe mental illness that includes delusional thinking, in a workplace shooting, you want to look at the latter two as most likely. – Adam Lankford	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There's real concern that he is totally delusional about the chances of keeping the White House, that's in part because there aren't a lot of people who are around him willing to tell him the truth. – Maeve Reston	Found on CNN 5 years ago
World history is made and lost on population, the fight for living space and the fight to hold on to living space, anyone who says different is either delusional or lying. Any way you look at it, the strongest always wins. – Zsolt Tyirityan	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We were delusional about what's popular, it was created in meetings. It smells. – James Williamson	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It is delusional, dangerous, not to mention unconstitutional, we have a long list of criminals who own guns, who routinely purchase guns. We know who these people are, and we are not prosecuting any of them. – Carly Fiorina	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It is delusional, dangerous, not to mention unconstitutional, for San Bernardino Obama and Hillary Clinton to continue talking about climate change and gun control in the wake of a Paris terrorist attack, in the wake of a San Bernardino terrorist attack, instead of how we can defeat ISIS. – Carly Fiorina	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Barack Obama was more interested in making a political statement than he was living in the world of reality, there's delusional thinking going on at the White House. – Iraq Perry	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm feeling delusional and hallucinating. – Leroy Strothers	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The president of the United States has concluded that the War on Terror has reached a point that we can safely release people from Gitmo, the best I can say about him is he's unfocused. That's delusional thinking. The War on Terror has reached a lethal phase, and it is insane to be letting these people out of Gitmo to go back to the fight. – Lindsey Graham	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I've always believed in education and in good teaching that is guided by truth. But after a lifetime of educational pursuit, I now ask, what is true education and who decides on what is good teaching? This search has taken me through the spiritual, the delusional, social, physical, the psychological, the philosophical -- and back again. And I have made the most important educational discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my whole life: It is only through kindness that any true lesson can be taught and that I'm only here to help my students find that kindness. They are all my education, they are all my good teaching, they are my truth, they are my kindness. – Paul. F. Meekin	added by anonymous 12 years ago
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder but you have question the beholder when he or she is delusional. – Rose Goodhall	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Find your sleep sweet spot to protect your brain as you age, study suggestsToward the end, Williams also experienced delusional looping.

– Schneider Williams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s delusional to think that ordinary people wouldn’t care much about inflation if only the media stopped discussing it. People notice when they pay more for groceries, rent, gasoline, pet food, diapers. It is painful. It is unsettling.

– Chip Somodevilla/Getty

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We'll see what terms the Russians offer, and I'm sure that it's a good thing that they're going to talk. But if anything, what this may show is that Vladimir Putin expected an easy win here. He thought he would waltz into the capital, into Kyiv.In his own delusional rendering of history, Ukrainians and Russians are the same, and he would overthrow this government and might even be welcomed as a liberator. And of course, the reality has been something quite different.

– Condoleezza Rice

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

More children die from cancer, drownings and car accidents daily than are dying from Covid, yet people are still driving on the roads and swimming in pools, it is time to take a step back and acknowledge that there is more damage being done to the children through prolonged restrictions than benefit … It is time to transition from a state of delusional fear and move forward confidently knowing the pandemic is not over, but the emergency certainly is.

– Nicole Saphier

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Michael Avenatti, this lawyer we just heard about today – we did not party with him and there are no pictures of us with Don Lemon in The Hamptons – but he just went to jail and we are so happy he went to jail, they pushed this guy on America and … they were deluded by their delusional loathing of Donald Trump.

– Greg Gutfeld

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

President Trumps recorded conversation with Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger is more than a pathetic, rambling, delusional rant, his disgraceful effort to intimidate an elected official into deliberately changing and misrepresenting the legally confirmed vote totals in his state strikes at the heart of our democracy and merits nothing less than a criminal investigation.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

While my love for my husband was steady and my trust in him absolute, I was clearly delusional. I believed I knew him. I believed we had the same definition of love, grieving him is an equal amount of heartbreak and rage.

– Paulina Porizkova

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I don't think any of us were delusional in thinking that we would be able to go in and pass these massive health care bills that we campaigned on, people in these front-line seats, in particular, are acutely aware that our jobs depend on us doing a good job and being effective representatives.

– Katie Hill

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Clearly, youre not getting away with this, these women are clearly delusional.

– Kenna Quinet

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Its not history unless you tell the whole thing. History has been fragmented selectively to paint a picture that is delusional really.

– Doris Cooper Anthony

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I think a lot of these people who over promise and imagine that they can do things well beyond what anybody else has done so far, they are possessed of a certain delusional quality — a certain kind of narcissistic belief in their own powers, that's become, in a way, kind of my stock and trade : to examine those characters,'cause there's something glorious about that.

– Alex Gibney

Found on CNN
5 years ago

She is delusional, has hallucinations( and) is confused about facts. She has the mental capacity of a toddler.

– Savina Genoese Zerbi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's delusional of some United States elites to think that China is the largest beneficiary of the international system since they mistakenly blame China for the US' own problems. China has realized its development through hard work, not by taking advantage of the international system.

– United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There are several pathways we observe : antisocial individuals who are part of a gang, depressed and despondent persons who are highly distressed over a grievance and believe they have no future, and a small group of persons with severe mental illness that includes delusional thinking, in a workplace shooting, you want to look at the latter two as most likely.

– Adam Lankford

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There's real concern that he is totally delusional about the chances of keeping the White House, that's in part because there aren't a lot of people who are around him willing to tell him the truth.

– Maeve Reston

Found on CNN
5 years ago

World history is made and lost on population, the fight for living space and the fight to hold on to living space, anyone who says different is either delusional or lying. Any way you look at it, the strongest always wins.

– Zsolt Tyirityan

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

We were delusional about what's popular, it was created in meetings. It smells.

– James Williamson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It is delusional, dangerous, not to mention unconstitutional, we have a long list of criminals who own guns, who routinely purchase guns. We know who these people are, and we are not prosecuting any of them.

– Carly Fiorina

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It is delusional, dangerous, not to mention unconstitutional, for San Bernardino Obama and Hillary Clinton to continue talking about climate change and gun control in the wake of a Paris terrorist attack, in the wake of a San Bernardino terrorist attack, instead of how we can defeat ISIS.

– Carly Fiorina

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Barack Obama was more interested in making a political statement than he was living in the world of reality, there's delusional thinking going on at the White House.

– Iraq Perry

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I'm feeling delusional and hallucinating.

– Leroy Strothers

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The president of the United States has concluded that the War on Terror has reached a point that we can safely release people from Gitmo, the best I can say about him is he's unfocused. That's delusional thinking. The War on Terror has reached a lethal phase, and it is insane to be letting these people out of Gitmo to go back to the fight.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I've always believed in education and in good teaching that is guided by truth. But after a lifetime of educational pursuit, I now ask, what is true education and who decides on what is good teaching? This search has taken me through the spiritual, the delusional, social, physical, the psychological, the philosophical -- and back again. And I have made the most important educational discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my whole life: It is only through kindness that any true lesson can be taught and that I'm only here to help my students find that kindness. They are all my education, they are all my good teaching, they are my truth, they are my kindness.

– Paul. F. Meekin

added by anonymous
12 years ago

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder but you have question the beholder when he or she is delusional.

– Rose Goodhall

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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