"Because, " Paul explains, with a mischievous grin, "casinos are all about illusion".
He might hold the key to people's imaginations or it may all be an illusion.
De Beers's executives, naturally, deny that there is an illusion at all.
Siri, the social network, digital assistants, all of these give the illusion of companionship without the demands of relationship.
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We thought deeply (okay, and argued, too) about the weight of great expectations, the insidious lie of "having it all, " and the illusion of unlimited options on women who had not yet learned to deal with them.
Without getting into the intrinsic value debate, this is where I strongly depart from Denninger, because if we accept the thesis that all money is a universal mass illusion, then a market-based illusion can be just as valid or more valid than a State-controlled illusion.
To preserve the illusion of a track open to all comers, France has made several moves to support smaller one- and two-car teams.
But the report said to place too much emphasis on individual blame was to risk perpetuating the illusion that removal of particular individuals is all that is necessary.
Until we target culture as the issue, all we're accomplishing with systemic fixes is the illusion of action.
We all know that the Federal Reserve rests on a shared illusion.
Whether the USC remains its former glory remains to be seen, what is for certain is that their mighty downfall will serve as a warning to universities and other organizations that the illusion of success propped by a win at all costs philosophy can lead only to failure and suffering.
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After all, you are the one making the choice to relinquish the illusion.
After all, a growing number of Americans seem to be under the illusion that, as with Vietnam, we can end the war simply by bailing out of Iraq.
So the perception among many, that all of this is moving so fast, is a bit of an illusion.
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"There is no illusion anymore about 11 football players being like friends, and all these things about 'Real Love' and so on, " Jan-Henrick Gruszecki, one of the founders of Dortmund's biggest fan group, Unity, said, making reference to Dortmund's motto.
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All studios are designed with the same furniture and decoration, to aid the illusion.
That lets the Meta 1 track your gestures, individual fingers and walls or other physical surfaces, all of which are processed in the PC with motion tracking tech to give the illusion of virtual objects anchored to the real world.
To do it the David Blaine way, all you need is a bit of training in how to distract people while creating an illusion.
He knows that a budget based on arithmetic is a lot better than one based on illusion. (Applause.) And he knows that practical cooperation is better than all this constant ideological conflict.
President Reagan could have no illusion about the opposition he would face at home in embarking on this course: He had, after all, seen these forces weaken the West throughout the seventies.
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