That is true whether an illusion is cognitive or political.

My conception of my role as Soviet president compelled me not to intervene.

I began by noting my personal identification with the bond between North America and Europe.

I carried that fascination with me into adulthood, and it grew as my grasp on it all increased.

Though much of the Kabul's imagery conformed to my understanding of the country, there were many other moments that cameras rarely capture.

Mind blindness can be described as a cognitive disorder where an individual is unable to attribute mental states to the self and other.

Throughout the world, people suffer from a serious perception error that has inhibited them from taking concrete steps to protect themselves from inflation or deflation.

Adjustment reactions are brief, but useful a cognitive, logistical, and emotional rehearsal for possible hard times ahead.

There's a cognitive illusion. We cognitive psychologists know that the easier it is to recall specific instances of something, the higher the probability that you assign to it.

It is because of the importance of education in making me an exception that I am so deeply troubled by a recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights.

The more I have thought about the lesson she taught me 45 years ago, the clearer I have seen another, less obvious dimension in what she said It is we who lost the war.

That is true whether an illusion is cognitive or political. Depending on how a particular event develops, it can lead us to formulate erroneous interpretations of what is actually happening.

And I looked down at my body and I thought, Whoa, I'm a weird looking thing. And it was as though my consciousness had shifted away from my normal perception of reality, where I'm the person on the machine having the experience, to some esoteric space where I'm witnessing myself having this experience.

That Walt Whitman and Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Henry James, and John Dos Passos had lived here, that Enescu, Brancusi, or Eugen Ionesco had been successful here in no way raised my hopes.

And in the course of the exhibition which was contentious, controversial and ultimately, for me, life changing in my sense of what art could be a woman came up to me on the gallery floor to express her concern about the nature of how powerful images could be and how we understood each other.

Throughout the world, people suffer from a serious perception error that has inhibited them from taking concrete steps to protect themselves from inflation or deflation. The error is called the money illusion the belief that a nominal unit of currency is the best measure of value, even though its real value is unstable.