It's always possible that he's deluding himself -- but not likely.
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You know he has been deluding himself — he is deluded.
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He said he would not seek to change May's withdrawal agreement which has been rejected by parliament three times and said anyone who said they could do so by October was "deluding themselves or deluding the country".
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He said he would not seek to change May's withdrawal agreement, which has been rejected by parliament three times, and said anyone who said they could do so by October was "deluding themselves or deluding the country".
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He said he would not seek to change the Withdrawal Agreement which has been rejected by parliament three times and said anyone who said they could do so by October was "deluding themselves or deluding the country".
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Is it because they realize on some level that they're deluding themselves?
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Our analysis in this explainer suggests that they may be deluding themselves.
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Is this one of those cases where the market is deluding itself?
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Parents also seem to deluding themselves regarding their own driving-while-texting abilities.
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"I have a feeling that a few Britons are deluding themselves," she said.
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Patrick is all of us: deluding ourselves that our flaws are really our virtues.
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But Lewis argues that anyone who was expecting that to happen was deluding themselves.
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Seems he wanted a contract extension, though he appeared to stress he wasn't deluding himself, either.
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Those conservatives are deluding themselves if they think big cuts are going to help the poor.
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A comment from a coworker made me realize I've been deluding myself about money for years
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Proponents of the second referendum who see it as a Brexit out might be deluding themselves, too.
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Or is Annalisa Quinn deluding herself into thinking that she knows my feelings better than I do?
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Until that changes, Europeans should stop deluding themselves that transatlantic tensions will just magically disappear after Trump.
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"Anybody who thinks it's not going to spill over to the weekdays is deluding themselves," she said.
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But they are deluding each other in thinking that this campaign appeals to casual voters watching at home.
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Republicans critical of the president believe he is deluding himself with his assertions of his own political strength.
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An employer who claims not to be the least tempted to exploit these conditions is probably deluding herself.
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Surveys show (including those in the FCA's interim report) that they are deluding themselves; performance does not reliably persist.
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I decided that I had been deluding myself and so I adopted what they had been saying about me.
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The Trump administration, however, would be deluding itself if it believes Iran is the sole cause of Yemen's troubles.
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Those miscalculations are deluding it into believing that a trade war with China can be won quickly and cheaply.
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Deluding oneself is a powerful thing, but it won't hold back election results or a rising neo-fascist movement.
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And it recognizes that living a life performed in public can be its own kind of self-deluding prison.
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Luther's discounting of personal charity as a self-deluding substitute for faith prompted state welfare to compensate the poor.
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"People can't multitask very well, and when people say they can, they're deluding themselves," neuroscientist Earl Miller tells NPR.
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Also, most poignantly, both narratives offer incisive observations about how marriages can grow insidious, and how instincts can be deluding.
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Yet again Zuckerberg is deluding himself by asserting that refusing to fully own a position means he isn't taking one.
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It's their self-protecting, self-deluding rationalizations that conjure the devils of distrust that rip a social fabric to shreds.
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Lawmakers are deluding themselves to think that he won't consider such radical acts again as his predicament grows more dire.
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"The financial market is deluding itself with the promise of a liberal economic program" from Mr. Bolsonaro, Mr. Schwartsman said.
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Those who think Trump can be contained, or trained by seasoned K Street hacks to act reasonable, are deluding themselves.
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He added that Kristol and other "Never Trump" conservatives are deluding themselves if they think French is a viable option.
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People like Brooks, Roy argues, are deluding themselves — and it's preventing a true conservative rhetoric about the rise of Trump.
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Others assert that in our quest for imagination and prediction, we're deluding ourselves into thinking that we can predict what's coming.
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But I decided the only way to proceed was deluding myself into believing the former and carrying on, self esteem intact.
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"I think you're deluding yourself to think (if) you're buying Triple B, you're less susceptible to the risk," he told IFR.
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I've also learned that vegans aren't deluding themselves when they mention recipes that are just as good as the real thing.
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They are deluding themselves if they believe the forces he has unleashed will recede with his defeat — if he is defeated.
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But FIFA is deluding itself if it thinks that would eliminate the risk of collusion: Case 248 would still be possible.
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"If it doesn't quite fit, you may be deluding yourself to think you're being protected when you're really not," Avol said.
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So, the only thing that I'm doing in my mind at the time by pretending like I wasn't fired is deluding myself.
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Everybody had an incentive to perpetuate the status quo just a little longer, deluding themselves that it could go on and on.
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The game was to expose and/or to exploit photography's deceitfulness, with implicit criticism of a culture industry bent on deluding the masses.
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He was not looking back on these feelings from the safe perch of a diminished libido, or deluding himself that they were abnormal.
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Democrats are deluding themselves if they think they lost because of "#NeverHillary" voters who will come home when she is not on the ballot.
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At the same time, we're never allowed to sentimentalize the broader social context — never deluding ourselves that Hubert can truly envision starting up elsewhere.
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A self-deluding filmmaker (Steve Buscemi) falls in with an eccentric, lovable crook (Seymour Cassel) who may finally be his ticket to artistic success.
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Still, don't fall into the trap of deluding yourself into believing that nothing tragic happened to you — it did, and it will be unpleasant.
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These networks are fun, but you're deluding yourself if you think that Twitter messages, posts and likes are a productive use of your time.
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The picture Rowling paints is of people who are fundamentally deluding themselves, whose happy ending will at best be a parody of a family.
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Shot in Super 8, "The Least Resistance" (1980–81) is a hoot, a picaresque tale about a couple of lazy, irritable, scheming, self-deluding lowlifes.
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It offers a welcome break from the blinkered and often self-deluding meathead logic of the men who feature in all of the other stories.
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And, while instability in Egypt is a legitimate concern, we are deluding ourselves to think that American assistance is the difference between order and chaos.
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"If there is a common thread to my books it's the message that Germany has been somewhat arrogant, that it has been deluding itself," Fratzscher said.
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It turns out that shedding our denial might do more than deluding ourselves that we're as powerful as men to make us feel like complete people.
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But conservatives are probably deluding themselves if they think the Trump presidency will be a virtual "safe space" for them and their most tightly held beliefs.
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While I am committed to exercise, I'd be deluding myself if I believed that I was going to go to the gym five days a week.
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Some China experts say that American companies are deluding themselves and that, without safeguards, China will eventually steal their technology and drive them out of business.
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"Here's someone who knows they're infected but they're deluding themselves into thinking they're not, so they'll continue to be a risk to other people," he said.
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"Congress would be deluding themselves if they think this limited action will cause [health] plans to change their approach for 2018," one insurance lobbyist told me.
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Esther insists to Voiello (Silvio Orlando) that the pope has a good heart, and only cares about her eternal soul, but Voiello tells her she's deluding herself.
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We might feel that we're getting by fine on less sleep, but we're deluding ourselves, Dr. Veasey said, largely because lack of sleep skews our self-awareness.
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So, while clearly not opposed to these practices, he just doesn't want anyone out there deluding themselves that their way of eating is justified on moral grounds.
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"The only thing I'm doing in my mind at the time, by pretending I wasn't fired, is deluding myself," Mason said on the latest episode of Recode Decode.
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These guys have made choices that involve self-medicating or deluding themselves—whatever someone has to do in their own psyche to get through life, which we all do.
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But liberals are deluding themselves if they don't see the good in Carson offering hope to people in need of inspiration and looking to make a way to success.
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The bottom line: Investors who play in the futures contracts market are putting their money where their mouths are in expectation that central bankers are either bluffing or deluding themselves.
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Here is why making that argument is hard: making it really stick requires convincing those same Sanders supporters that they are naïve and deluding themselves about how American politics works.
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If Twitter and Facebook executives think these numbers are good approximations of the number of fake accounts Russia deployed in 2016, they are deluding not only themselves but the public.
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He has come to think of Staten Island as another planet, and Harlem as his home turf, but his self-deluding streak is just another wrenching part of his character.
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If Twitter and Facebook executives think these numbers are good approximations of the number of fake accounts Russia deployed in 28503, they are deluding not only themselves but the public.
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Americans and Europeans would be deluding themselves if they believe they can go their separate ways and still succeed in shaping a world that both would wish to live in.
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This sort of digital archaeology was pronounced dead years ago, and trying to pick out bits of Genuine Online from the glue trap of targeted ads and sponsored content seems self-deluding.
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Here are the major findings of the study and of my interviews and reporting: "These companies are misrepresenting what they do and they're deluding the public," BAN Director Jim Puckett told me.
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Can't they see that white American citizens specifically live within a system that has handed them privilege for centuries, deluding them into believing they have done more than others to earn it?
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The prose ranges from the lithe and acute — Thompson is wonderfully adept at evoking the self-deluding way men and women think about themselves and one another — to the all too frequently laborious.
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Whether Love is deluding himself or he genuinely believes it is the case, he said the 12 players he had at his disposal would carry no previous baggage into this year's Ryder Cup.
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There is no way on God's green earth that you can read Trump's tweets on Sunday and conclude what Harris has apparently concluded about them unless you are willfully deluding yourself for political reasons.
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But anyone who thinks his decision Tuesday to step down as WeWork's CEO will solve all the company's problems and get its initial public offering back on track is seriously deluding him or herself.
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The movie revolves around a self-deluding filmmaker (Steve Buscemi) with ambitions of making great art; he falls in with an eccentric, lovable crook (Seymour Cassel) who may finally be his ticket to success.
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Critics of Mr. Putin accused the former minister of deluding himself with the idea that the president was not responsible for Mr. Calvey's troubles and countless other examples of Russian law enforcement run amok.
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When voters think foreign aid is the largest item in the budget (it is less than 1 percent), or that we can reach fiscal balance by cutting waste, fraud and abuse, they are deluding themselves.
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"Maybe Ms. Omar is deluding herself that, by keeping her name out of the resolution and her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the measure does not pertain to her one whit," he wrote.
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He catches perfectly the curiously languid pace of twentieth-century middle-class English life, which persisted even through two world wars, and which self-deluding Brexiteers vainly imagine can be reinstituted in today's globalized world.
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An NBC News analyst apparently heard Kerry saying "maybe I'm f---ing deluding myself here" and clarifying that he would need to resign from Bank of America's board of directors and stop giving paid speeches.
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A new survey published on Tuesday by the fitness-tracking app Strava left me absolutely flabbergasted to discover that, according to data collected by Strava, the vast majority of runners aren't deluding themselves at all.
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Gender-critical feminists blame the patriarchy for deluding trans men into thinking they can identify out of female oppression, or blame structural homophobia for convincing trans men they can become straight men rather than lesbians.
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Stop calling the inquiry a "witch hunt" and a "deep state" conspiracy, they said by way of guidance to the president and his advisers, because it's deluding too many Trump supporters into a sense of complacency.
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Those that attempt to casually toss off the entire email scandal as a diversion to Clinton's procession to a presidency to which she is somehow entitled are deluding themselves about Clinton's qualifications to be commander in chief.
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We are not only deluding ourselves but putting others in danger — so here are a few ground rules to make sure you don't make this difficult period any harder for yourself or the people you work with.
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Perhaps I'm deluding myself, but I'd like to think that what I've gleaned about other countries — their politics, legal systems, gender relations, footwear choices — offers some justification for my countless hours of binging, mostly via Netflix or Amazon.
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"It's imperative that Republicans stop deluding the public into thinking that community health centers can just replace the incredibly important services that Planned Parenthood provides to women and their families — with no negative consequences," a Bridge representative told Refinery29.
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Sure, there was more tragic romance than I typically like, but "First Blood" makes clear, I think, that the two are deluding themselves if they think that the very foundations of Gilead aren't going to eventually make them antagonists.
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But we can celebrate the troops' homecoming without deluding ourselves about what the agreement is — a U.S. bow to the Taliban and a body blow to millions of Afghan women, whose brutal oppression remains a hallmark of Taliban rule.
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At the end of all that, what you come up with is a very beautiful, very precise spiritual tradition that's like a cross between yoga and disciplined creative thinking, with the scientific method thrown in to keep people from deluding themselves.
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They are willfully ignoring the danger Trumpism and Bannonism pose to many of the principles they claim to hold dear, and they are deluding themselves into believing that a rapprochement is possible with those who are determined to destroy them.
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" Mr. Trump embodies what Kennedy intended to warn against that day in Dallas, in a speech he had prepared but never got to deliver: demagogues making arguments "wholly unrelated to reality," deluding themselves that "strength is but a matter of slogans.
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The song, which has admonitory lyrics about gold-digging women and self-deluding men, sounds skeletal: just the thumb-piano pattern, call-and-response vocals from Mr. Kondi, a steady 4/4 thump and a few electronic boops and buzzes.
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It could be that they're the ones who have been deluding themselves into thinking that the conservative movement is a higher intellectual calling, when in fact it's been a cover for a shallow and vicious brand of white identity politics for decades.
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" In Moyo's view, cutting yourself off from constructive or negative feedback is tantamount to stunting your personal and professional growth, "people's capacity for self-delusion is enormous, and I wake up sometimes and I think, 'what might I be deluding myself on'.
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The text is "AI is fascinating, and we're really close!" but the subtext to many of the projects is that we're a long way off from creating intelligent robots, but not particularly far from deluding ourselves into thinking we've cracked the machine-intelligence code.
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In 2002, six months before the Iraq war, I reported from Baghdad that President George W. Bush and his aides were deluding themselves to think that Iraqis would welcome an invasion; Iraqis hated Saddam but hated even more the idea of Yankee imperialists attacking their nation.
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However, by continuously mocking women for dressing like whores—or at least, by claiming that women are deluding themselves when they consider dressing like whores and owning their sexuality empowering—Fey is making the dangerous (and extremely retrograde) statement that sex positivity and feminism are mutually exclusive.
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But it plants seeds of thought that keep growing in your imagination, while making you provocatively self-conscious about who you are, not as an individual but as a part of that race of striving, self-deluding two-legged beings who have been walking this planet for many millenniums.
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And to push the analogy further, those who think Trump can be simply marginalized by responsible Republican leaders are deluding themselves, somewhat like investors who argued that the collapse of Bear Stearns in May 2008 could be safely contained and we could then move back to endlessly increase housing prices.
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There's the rise, which is usually assisted by self-deluding opportunists who believe that they can restrain the ascendant authoritarian figure; old Bolsheviks like Grigory Zinoviev, countering Trotsky, played just as significant a role in Stalin's ascent, largely through abstention, as the respectable conservative Franz von Papen did in Hitler's.
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He and other experienced members challenge the beliefs that enable abuse ("paedophiles are very good at deluding themselves that a kid is coming on to them") and share tips: always act as if a child's parent is in the room; avoid situations such as children's birthday parties; never fantasise about a child you know.
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In it, Chang argues that the tech industry is deluding itself if it thinks it can really make the world better without representing women equally; while the biggest banks on Wall Street employ equal numbers of men and women, she says, women hold 25 percent of computing jobs and received just 2 percent of venture capital funding.
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Aides portray him as angry, hurt, and actively deluding himself about both the reasons he's losing and the possibility he may still win: Sanders is himself filled with resentment, on edge, feeling like he gets no respect -- all while holding on in his head to the enticing but remote chance that Clinton may be indicted before the convention.
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The problem with all this self-deluding preservation of the past isn't just that it's regressive, or alienating for those of us who don't spend our time musing on Churchill's legacy or swelling with pride at our good fortune to accidentally be born British; it's that it pollutes and stagnates even the discourse that ought to oppose it.
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At this stage, anyone who thinks they're doing it for LOLs is either deluding themselves or hiding behind that ironic style in order to avoid being interpreted, because at this point the stakes are actually quite high, and Trump is in the White House, and this movement has spread far beyond the confines of a few obscure message boards.
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I would sob in a car to uptown Manhattan, where my friend Alia would take me in her arms and tell me it was all going to be OK. I would sleep in Alia's bed that night and accidentally pat her butt in my sleep, my mind clearly deluding my body into believing I was still on the cruise with Lynette.
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