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• I think that if you believe in regime change, you're mistaken. In 2013, we put 600 tons of weapons - us, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar - into the war against [Bashar] Assad. By pushing Assad back, we did create a safe space.

  Rand Paul

  War, Believe, Thinking

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Weather, San Francisco

  Attributed in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be.

  Gary Crowley

  Spiritual, Self, Enlightenment

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• I have the courage to be mistaken.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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• A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for his mission through study alone would be mistaken. The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Thinking, Tasks

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• There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It’s like the song “Amazing Grace”: I was blind and now I see.

  Marianne Williamson

  Song, Pain, Emotional

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.

  Judith Butler

  War, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• No one has ever mistaken me for someone who should be giving fashion advice, but I will say I'm always impressed by women who have kind of figured out their own style and comfort. That's what I find attractive.

  Hugh Dancy

  Fashion, Giving, Advice

  "Hugh Dancy on Men, Women & Clothes". Interview with Jenny Feldman, www.glamour.com. July 8, 2009.

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• Inspirational Psychology includes the practical application of identifying the thoughts and mistaken beliefs that cause us pain, along with a contemplative practice to discover our true nature, which is Love.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Pain, Practice, Psychology

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Thinking, Usa, China

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Moral Absolutism, People, Usual

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.203, Cambridge University Press

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• There's also something that is often mistaken for enlightenment which is a kind of insanity. Often, people will have some kind of weird experience which is quite abnormal and think, "Oh my God, that's it, I understand everything" because they start seeing things in a very weird way and think that's how enlightened people see things as well.

  Brad Warner

  Thinking, People, Insanity

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding. However, the selflessness teaching is not that hard to understand. What it means is a type of self that people feel they have, like a fixed, unchanging identity. Either they know they have it, or for some, they feel they need to seek it, and possibly have an experience where they feel like they found something. That type of fixed, unchanging, essential self, or absolute self doesn't exist. That's what "no self" means.

  Robert Thurman

  Teaching, Mean, Self

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was written beforehand. And it just happened in rehearsals Basically giving each person their vocal-line and I ended up getting that line! I'm so grateful I did because it was really special to sing that and you feel something when you sing it it's a very distinct piece that fits perfectly in the production.

  Kendra Kassebaum

  Believe, Grateful, Giving

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there was nothing wrong with that. I thought there was something very wrong. I still do. I think race-based affirmative action is crude and absolutely mistaken.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Thank God I am 20 feet tall, so my crying is never mistaken as weak. It can be mistaken as weird, but not weak.

  Wendy Williams

  Feet, Thank God, Cry

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Because of my compact and muscular body composition, my short hair, and my "Johawk," I have been mistaken for a boy on many occasions. Each time it happens, it feels like I have been punched in the gut. It is extremely discouraging.

  Joanna Lohman

  Boys, Hair, Body

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• I was the funny, outgoing kid who didn't understand how he could keep getting mistaken for a nerd nobody liked.

  Adam Rex

  Kids, Nerd, Outgoing

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I admire ventriloquists, because I can't do that. I mean, I might get mistaken for a ventriloquist dummy every now and then, but I can't do what they do.

  Brad Williams

  Mean, Might, Now And Then

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

  Junius

  Political, Politics, Holy

  'Public Advertiser' 19 December 1769, Letter 35

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• If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

  M. C. Escher

  Art, Renaissance, Architect

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• It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.

  Allen W. Wood

  Communication, Partners, Investigation

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• One thing in the Middlewest: If you're in my business you're aware of the low opinion both coasts have of the midlands. And that is quite mistaken. New York would be a Kokomo if it weren't for Middlewesterners coming there.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, Would Be, Opinion

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• Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

  John Locke

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Long

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• When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.

  John Wesley

  Mistake, Past, Years

  John Wesley (1841). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.”, p.376

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