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• In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

  Walt Whitman

  Happy, Talking, Together

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

  Barbara Amiel

  Ideas, Progress, Peculiar

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• I am a Christian and I don't want there to be any confusion about what I believe or who I am. I don't believe gay people are going to hell. I believe that judgment is left to the one upstairs and I believe Jesus is all about love. If I can live my life even just a smidgen the way God made his son for us as an example, I'm happy. I do not judge other people for what they believe, but for me, this is what works.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.

  Donald Kagan

  Ignorance, Past, America

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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

  Confused, White, People

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• And whatever your labors and aspirations,
  in the noisy confusion of life,
  keep peace in your soul.
  With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

  Max Ehrmann

  Beautiful, Dream, Broken

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.10, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion

  Matthieu Ricard

  Goal, Meditation, Mind

  Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I am a Christian and I don't want there to be any confusion about what I believe or who I am.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Christian, Believe, Who I Am

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Passion, Views, Practice

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Two: The Path Is the Goal; Training the Mind; Glimpses of Abhidharma; Glimpses of Shu nyata; Glimpses of Mahayana; Selected Writings”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Progress, Trials, Moral

  State of the Union Address, January 19, 1975.

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• If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• If you can't convince them, confuse them.

  Harry S. Truman

  Witty, Business, Silly

  Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2003). “Miracle of Forty-eight”, p.139, SIU Press

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  We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

  Tom Waits

  Happiness, Money, Confused

  "Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits". www.npr.org. May 20, 2008.

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• The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Frustration, Men, Confusing

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• I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

  Anne Frank

  Peace, Thinking, Foundation

  "Selling the Holocaust: From Auschwitz to Schindler". Book by Tim Cole, p.35, 2000.

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• Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

  George Saunders

  Life, Hurt, Confused

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.55, A&C Black

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• ... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

  Saul Bellow

  Age, Eras, Turmoil

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.

  Vernon Howard

  Grief, Self, Desperation

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• I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.

  Brian Molko

  People, Mind, Looks

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• Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

  Sarah Fielding

  Errors, Desire, Bending

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• Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Peace

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• Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

  Paul Klee

  Nature, Artist, Taciturn

  Paul Klee (1964). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.236, Univ of California Press

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• If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Lying

  "An Essential Part of Being'" by Brian Weatherley, November 12, 2010.

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• Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Sin, Objects, Originals

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.

  Lenny Kravitz

  People, Fingers, Uncomfortable

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