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• There's nothing worse than people who are confused when deciding about something, so hopefully we can clear up any questions folks have. I know a lot of people are confused as to what the options are for White County so if nothing else, we will try to explain the scenario.

  Steve Burton

  White, Confusion, People

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• Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness.

  Daniel Dennett

  Lasts, Tongue, Topics

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• Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.

  Henry Ford

  Progress, Fever, Spirit

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• It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.

  Jack Gilbert

  Beautiful, Girl, Country

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.382, Knopf

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• A lot of men hate women subconsciously or just are very confused about them or are afraid of them or are afraid of their power, or want to suppress them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Women, Enlightenment

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• The entire island of Martha's Vineyard has gone Obama crazy. There's even a cocktail that they've named after Barack Obama. It's called the Obamarita. Not to be confused with a cocktail inspired by John McCain, the Cosmopoligrip. And then there was one a couple of years ago inspired by George W. Bush, the Mojidiot. Of course, there was the Bill Clinton Screwdriver.

  David Letterman

  Couple, Crazy, Islands

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• Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.

  Albert Einstein

  Hate, Ambition, Men

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• We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't even got them here in America, and the farther we get into this war the farther we get away from democracy and freedom. Where is it leading us to, and when will it end? The war might stop this winter, but that is improbable. It may go on for fifty years or more. That also is improbable. The elements are too conflicting and confused to form any accurate judgment of its length. There may be a series of wars, one after another, going on indefinitely.

  Charles Lindbergh

  War, Winter, Years

  Journal entry on December 11, 1941. "The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh". Book by Charles Lindbergh, 1970.

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• If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall be fairly confident of ourselves and may, with any luck, be confident of others. Our object will be to enjoy our selves. But to make sure that our names are permanently on the cast list, it will be advisable to be of interest to others. This aim must never be confused with the desire to be popular.

  Quentin Crisp

  Self, Names, Luck

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• President Obama says he wants to put an end to the policy, 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' Yeah, in the military. This is not to be confused with George Bush's policy, 'Don't Know, Don't Care.' That's a whole different deal.

  David Letterman

  Military, President, Different

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• In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.

  Zhuangzi

  Skills, Differences, Archery

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• Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hurt, Self, Doe

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Closing words, 1968.

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• I was never really interested in studies and was hot-headed and rebellious in college, as I was totally confused and insecure but was not coming to terms with it.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Insecure, College, Hot Headed

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• I have so many ideas; there are so many things that need to be done, so many possibilities, you know; one is terribly excited, but at the same time, you're almost confused, because you don't know where to begin.

  Chinua Achebe

  Ideas, Done, Needs

  Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors (1997). “Conversations with Chinua Achebe”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has taken the place of those stone monsters, before whom human victims used to be immolated, and whom slavish savages dared not even touch lest they should be slain by the thunderbolts of heaven.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Taken, Law, Heaven

  Peter Kropotkin (1927). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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• I have to make decisions that people are a little confused about, in a way, and I just express the appreciation, admiration and respect I have. I just try to be the best I can, but I'm human.

  Selena Gomez

  Appreciation, People, Decision

  "Selena Gomez Talks SPRING BREAKERS, Why She Signed on, What She Learned from the Experience, BEHAVING BADLY, GETAWAY, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 19, 2013.

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• I'm always confused when people say how much they miss 'Invader Zim' because the show never stopped running in my head, and then I remember everyone else isn't in my head. I try to imagine the world for all those people who don’t know what Zim's been up to since the show went off the air and it makes me shudder. How can people live that way? Hopefully this comic helps make the world a better place.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Running, Air, People

  "Oni Presses Teases Invader Zim Comic" by Jesse Schedeen, www.ign.com. February 20, 2015.

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• I love playing idiots. I love very weird, confused women.

  Jillian Bell

  Idiot

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.

  Dave Grohl

  Stars, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.

  Thom Gunn

  Aids, Annihilation, My Thoughts

  "In Time Of Plague". Poem by Thom Gunn, www.theguardian.com. 1992.

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• My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless... It is all right with me that my work serves a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time, in which human beings are so confused and in need of help.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Art, Needs, Purpose

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• Philosophy, which formerly raised man to feel conscious of himself because he was a thinking being and to say, 'I think therefore I am," now raises him to say ... "I think, therefore I am not," (unless he takes thought into consideration only in that humble region where it is confused with action).

  Julien Benda

  Philosophy, Humble, Men

  Julien Benda, Roger Kimball (2017). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.64, Routledge

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• The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form -- to make it true and real to the theme, not to life.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Song, Art, Determination

  Sherwood Anderson (1947). “The Sherwood Anderson reader”

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• Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Teaching, Greatness, Training

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.59, Penguin

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• The laws of thought are natural laws with which we have no power to interfere, and which are of course not to be in any way confused with the artificial laws of a country, which are invented by men and can be altered by them. Every science is occupied in detecting and describing the natural laws which are inflexibly observed by the objects treated in the Science.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Country, Men, Law

  William Stanley Jevons (1965). “Elementary lessons in logic”, p.1, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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