Sentences with phrase «more dangerous illusion»

«When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing» Bernard Baruch

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They have gained experience at a far more powerful court, and have no illusions about Herod's ability to be dangerous and vicious, even in his decline.

Wonderful article and I hope that more young mothers will try to follow your example... as long as children are aware that there are consequences for every action, there is no need to be cruel or to hit the child... but you do have to be consistent because children don't even begin to have abstract thought (cause and effect) until they reach 13 or 14 and, even then, it's sketchy... I think the illusion that because a woman has a child that automatically makes her a good mother has been dangerous for our children... I know a woman who used to say, ``... if you don't have power when you're a mother, when do you get power?»

Those illusions are not just silly — they make the world a more dangerous place.

An idea, nothing more; Marcus Aurelius hints to Maximus that this idea of Rome may be nothing but a dangerous illusion, but Maximus rejects the thought, since he can't bear to consider that the deaths of his men in the Germanic wars were for nothing.