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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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• 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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• Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Competition, Experts

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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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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• Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High school dropout issues. But because of the flow of events which involve the racial component, we've sometimes confused racial issues with other issues which are trans-racial.

  David Brooks

  School, White, America

  Interview with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. June 21, 2015.

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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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• Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish 'The Magnificent Ambersons'] I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but these would've been mine and not the fruit of confused and often semi-hysterical committees. If I had been there myself I would have found my own solutions and saved the pictures in a form which would have carried the stamp of my own effort.

  Orson Welles

  Editing, Effort, Fruit

  "This is Orson Welles". Book by Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, 1992.

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• I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.

  Arnold Friberg

  Art, Ambition, People

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• Tucker: You guys going to Milwaukee? Guy: Yes sir, heading home after a vacation. Tucker: Did you know there are midgets in Milwaukee? [The man and his wife are silent and confused.] Tucker: HUNDREDS OF THEM!

  Tucker Max

  Home, Men, Vacation

  Tucker Max (2011). “Assholes Finish First”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• In our national discourse and in pursuing our national agenda, we must never leave anyone behind. We must reach out to the many who may have been disaffected and left confused by political games, deceit and showmanship. The people first must transcend every level of society.

  Najib Razak

  Games, People, Political

  "Quotable quotes from Najib". New Srtaits Times, July 11, 2009.

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• Apparitions are often confused with hauntings. The difference is that apparitions are "live" (intelligent consciousness) and hauntings are "recordings.

  Loyd Auerbach

  Intelligent, Differences, Haunting

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• Plantinga has written a short, 5 page summary of his views on evolution and naturalism, and it’s lucid (for Plantinga) and goes straight to his main points. The workings of the man's mind sit there naked and exposed, and all the stripped gears and misaligned cogs and broken engines of his misperception are there for easy examination. Read it, and you'll wonder how a man so confused could have acquired such a high reputation; you might even think that philosophy has been Sokaled.

  PZ Myers

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

  "Alvin Plantinga Gives Philosophy a Bad Name". Personal blog, freethoughtblogs.com. May 29, 2009.

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• The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.

  Roger Zelazny

  Criticism, Reform, Should

  Roger Zelazny (1983). “Unicorn Variations”, Pocket Books

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• It's a bunch of bull! If God, or nature, or whatever you want to call it didn't want you to mix carbohydrates, starches and fats, you'd never have a grain, you'd never have a vegetable or a fruit, would you? What's in a grain? It's got carbohydrates, starches, fats, sugar. It's got everything in it. Why does nature do that? One guy says don't mix carbohydrates, and the other guy says don't mix protein with it; it's all a bunch of lard, something to sell a book. And the poor public is so confused, they don't know what to do.

  Jack LaLanne

  Book, Vegetables, Guy

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• And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.

  Oliver Sacks

  Dream, Memories, Past

  "Uncle Tungsten". Book by Oliver Sacks, 2001.

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• Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I always am convinced I'm going to be fired. I'm like, 'I don't remember how to act. I don't know how to do this.' And, it's just a very slow process, and then, all of a sudden, it's just there one day. I still don't understand how it happens.

  Cristin Milioti

  Play, One Day, Done

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting With Once Star Cristin Milioti". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Yesterday during a speech on national security, Jeb Bush mispronounced Boko Haram and got confused between Iran and Iraq. When reached for comment, his brother George W. said, 'He sure sounds presidentiary to me.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Brother, Iran, Iraq

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• Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  People, Pits, Weight

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• Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.

  Neil Jordan

  Regret, Thinking, Talking

  Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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• We throw you as many as you want, in this profession, and the more you want the more we'll give you, until you're so confused that you'll just beg for us to stop. Stop what? You're the one who started it - you're doing it anyway.

  Frederick Lenz

  Giving, Want, Masters

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• The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion.

  Dan Barker

  Prayer, Fighting, People

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• It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.

  Bob Costas

  Baseball, Thinking, Doubt

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• She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That's a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works.

  Gary Reilly

  Balance, Technique

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• A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and lose; in the second you don't fight because you know you can't win. However, in the highest level of power differential, your preferences are so manipulated that you act against your own interests, but you are content. Elective [meaning requested for no medical reason, not to be confused with needed surgery planned in advance] repeat cesarean exemplifies that highest level.

  Henci Goer

  Fighting, Winning, Levels

  Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.163, Penguin

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• I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are. who's more confused, those who think weapons are sexual organs, or those who want to take everyone's sexual organs away?.

  L. Neil Smith

  Thinking, People, Want

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.120, Macmillan

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