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“The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.”

Dangerous Danger Illusion Calculations

Author:Georges Bernanos

“The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique.”

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Book:Corporation Nation: How Corporations are Taking Over Our Lives -- and What We Can Do About It

Source: Corporation Nation: How Corporations are Taking Over Our Lives -- and What We Can Do About It

“The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.”

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Book:Film as Art

Source: Film as Art

“A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.”

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Book:The Woman in the Dunes

Source: The Woman in the Dunes

“Suddenly that it was as dangerous to be in America as it was to be overseas. So that the false distinction that's made by the anti-war movement between being over there and over here was exposed for all to see as an illusion. Although a number of people, a large amount of people still share in it. In other words, when I've been in Iraq or Afghanistan, I've probably been safer because I can carry a weapon if I have to, than my wife and daughter are living in Washington.”

“Now comes the threat of climate crisis - a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the 11th hour. The penalties for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable. For now we still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion?”

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Author:Al Gore

“In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.”

Long Facts Running Faces Dangerous Illusion Long Runs Discernment

Author:David Bohm

“The latest trade of a security creates a dangerous illusion that its market price approximates its true value. This mirage is especially dangerous during periods of market exuberance. The concept of "private market value" as an anchor to the proper valuation of a business can also be greatly skewed during ebullient times and should always be considered with a healthy degree of skepticism.”

Should Values Security Dangerous Periods Healthy Degrees Illusion Concepts Trade Skepticism Anchors Mirages Exuberance Valuation True Value

Author:Seth Klarman