As in domestic affairs, there is too often a blindness to consequences, a wishful thinking about human nature, and the same refusal to pay the price for maintaining our civilization.
Obviously, a bit of wishful thinking is inevitable in a losing presidential campaign.
These stock market predictions for 12 months from now are formed through the scientific process of extrapolating conditions from the present and recent past, stirring in some cognitively dissonant assumptions, adding a pinch of wishful thinking and then garnishing with a dollop of political bias.
Considering the modest claims made by the author of the plan, as well as the sharp questioning of even those claims by many eminent economists, it would require a heavy dose of wishful thinking to regard QE2 as a potent remedy for the ills of the real economy.
Further work is needed to prove that this is, indeed, a picture of MPL and not wishful thinking over a grainy handful of pixels.
And so a fog of wishful thinking, euphemisms, and well-intended egalitarianism hangs over the discussion of education, obscuring simple truths.
But is it all a bunch of wishful thinking?
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"To me, many of these projects are a result of easy access to capital and a combination of wishful thinking and speculative behavior rather than rational business calculations, " said Victor Teo, assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong.
Forecasts of a glittering post-embargo Cuba reflect wishful thinking, not a tough-minded assessment of the economic realities of the island.
If a President whose monomaniacal attachment to wishful thinking is replaced by a man and an Administration prepared to reckon with the world as it really is not just as we wish it to be then the United States may yet be spared further travel down the dangerous road toward effective unilateral chemical disarmament.
If a President whose monomaniacal attachment to wishful thinking is replaced by a man and an Administration prepared to reckon with the world as it really is -- not just as we wish it to be -- then the United States may yet be spared further travel down the dangerous road toward effective unilateral chemical disarmament.
U3 Ventures' Blaik believes that focusing on anchor institutions forces a discipline that prevents wishful thinking.
There is a powerful lot of wishful thinking going on about the American economy these days, starting at the very top.
This is a clear instance of wishful thinking over actual experience.
That was fun, if a little wishful in its thinking.
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Some plots misfire, and a few veer close to wishful thinking, but little of this matters, because the structure feels so confident.
In fact, it just may reflect the wishful thinking of a society that has left far too many young people languishing in sorrow and loneliness.
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"Chemicals are bad, " I told my family, and proceeded to use something called the Fertility Awareness Method, which basically involves wishful thinking and a temperature chart.
Freeman's appointment and the emergence of the anti-Israel lobby as a major force in Washington policy circles show that turning the US away from Israel has become a key component of that wishful thinking.
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The United States, he wrote, should abandon Eastern Europe to the Soviets, accept the division of Germany, and give up plans for the United Nations, which he considered a classic instance of political wishful thinking.
It will also help ensure that the debate about U.S. and Western security policy is informed by the true state of play in the former USSR, and not simply seductive rhetoric from a reconfigured Moscow center or wishful thinking in Washington and allied capitals.
"For decades Israel has sought to reach a separate peace agreement with Lebanon which has always failed, and it's wishful thinking to expect that such a deal could be reached at a time when Hezbollah has become the undisputed power in Lebanon, " said Malka, who is the deputy director of CSIS' Middle East program.
At the SIFMA securities conference June 15, two panels on social media and financial services revealed a world of confusion, contradiction, wishful thinking, denial and regulators lagging behind developments.
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Reading much more into this election is a symptom of either Republican depression or Democratic wishful thinking.
What is wishful thinking is to believe that a desire for peace means not preparing for war.
Indeed, I know of no basis other perhaps than wishful thinking for positing a connection between the presence or absence of U.S. testing and global proliferation.
Indeed, I know of no basis -- other perhaps than wishful thinking -- for positing a connection between the presence or absence of U.S. testing and global proliferation.
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