But as soon as you think about it, such a claim to idealism is make-believe.
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The only strategy which makes sense is to make believe there will be a resolution, as a way to start looking at everything else.
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And anyone who has raised a kid knows that the way to make the kid do what the parent wants is to make the kid believe it is all his or her idea and is actually what the kid wants-not what the parent wants.
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"The main thing that boxing has done for me is to make me believe in myself, " he said.
Your income tax expense under GAAP is a make-believe computation.
And this stuff is not make-believe any more.
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The biggest fault of both corporate executives and investors make today is to believe every quarterly report must be stellar.
But that is our position and that is what we believe is the only way to make this happen.
"That is a commitment which is I believe is too lengthy for me to make, " Mr Evans told his constituency party.
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One point I am glad to make is that sometimes people believe that if you don't have a dark background, the white will then be somewhat blurred.
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They think it is too big, too intrusive, and too expensive, and they do not believe it is likely to make health care better.
And this is -- none of this stuff is a silver bullet, but all of it continues to make progress to give what we believe is far more than sufficient incentive to start to comply.
Led today by Clinton, the opportunist camp supports whoever they believe is going to make them most popular with the media and Europe.
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But there are what I -- the point I want to make very clearly is that we believe we can work together with Congress to avoid a shutdown because we all agree that a shutdown would be disruptive to the economy, affect our capacity to grow and create jobs.
Limbert acknowledges that getting compensation from companies that violate sanctions against Iran is not ideal, but says decades of failed attempts to get direct accountability from Iran make him and other former hostages believe it is not in the cards.
Do I actually believe this is going to make the product better or not?
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But is planting virtual tomatoes and plugging make-believe mobsters enough to base a billion-dollar company on?
Instead, the Romney folks have taken some valid studies and clearly obliterated the truth contained in the effort to make us believe something that is not true.
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The biggest error the doubters make, Shapiro says, is to believe that dramatists and other authors in Shakespeare's day made a habit of autobiographically inserting themselves into their own works.
As a result, union leaders believe there is no opportunity to make progress until after Christmas.
But there is no reason to believe Facebook would ever make developers use Credits inside their games.
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When you first encounter it, there is a whiff of sci-fi make-believe about this tearing down of ancient language barriers.
Buddhists believe it is their duty to make pilgrimages to places of key events in the Buddha's life and Lumbini has already attracted large groups of devotees.
In a city known for creating the make-believe, finding something real is priceless.
"Accordingly, I believe it is right and proper to make an apology to you on behalf of the government, " he said.
Now I don't know about you, but I believe it is an unwise idea to make too much fun of people's tattoos of their spouses, lovers or children.
The notion that the creation of paper is what would make us rich or boost the economy is the stuff of youthful fantasy, but for adults who believe that the Fed can create more Intels and IBMs through excessive purchase of Treasuries and mortgage securities, Monetarism presently seeks converts.
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And we made clear -- when either side does something unilaterally that we believe is counterproductive to that cause, we make our opinions clear about that.
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