Sentences with phrase «symbolic actions often»

«The problem, Harvard Professor Robert N. Stavins wrote for the Wall Street Journal, is: «Symbolic actions often substitute for truly effective actions by allowing us to fool ourselves into thinking we are doing something meaningful about a problem when we are not.»
The problem is that symbolic actions often substitute for truly effective actions by fooling ourselves into thinking we are doing something meaningful about a problem when we are not.
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