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• In my life so far, I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people: those who are for you, and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them, for they are often and easily mistaken for each other.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Two, People, Kind

  Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• "Catherine." she paused. I waited, tapping my finger on my desk. Then she spoke words that had me almost falling out of my chair. "I've decided to come to your wedding." I actually glanced at my phone again to see if I'd been mistaken and it was someone else who'd called me. "Are you drunk?" I got out when I could speak. She signed. "I wish you wouldn't marry that vampire, but I'm tired of him coming between us." Aliens replaced her with a pod person, I found myself thinking. That's the only explanation

  Jeaniene Frost

  Fall, Tired, Thinking

  "At Grave's End". Book by Jeaniene Frost, December 30, 2008.

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• Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.

  Napoleon Hill

  Heart, Humble, Humility

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• If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.

  Sam Harris

  Views, Political, Brain

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape”, p.191, Random House

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• Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often. Like when a bumblebee flies or an ancient regime is toppled.

  Craig Ferguson

  Men, Law, Evil

  Craig Ferguson (2007). “Between the Bridge and the River”, p.208, Chronicle Books

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• He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Enemy, May

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.357, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Things In Life, You Don't Love Me

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• Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.

  Rebecca West

  People, Common Sense, Giving

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Fountain Overflows”, p.275, Open Road Media

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• You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man." "Screw you, Barrons." "I'm not that man, either.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Waiting, World

  Karen Marie Moning (2008). “Faefever: Fever Series”, p.229, Delacorte Press

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• Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion.

  Shannon Hale

  Beats, Said, Indigestion

  Shannon Hale (2012). “Midnight in Austenland: A Novel”, p.185, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by pursuing chimerical problems and theories which are false. In physical science, which is more advanced than biology, we might still cite men of science who make great discoveries by relying on false theories.

  Claude Bernard

  Mistake, Science, Men

  "An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine".

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• Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Thinking, Trying

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• No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a time. The writer is convinced that this view is wholly mistaken. Nature, he suggests, will best respond to a logical and carefully thought out questionnaire; indeed, if we ask her a single question, she will often refuse to answer until some other topic has been discussed.

  Ronald Fisher

  Nature, Science, Views

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• Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it for us in their vaults, or at least insure it against fire and theft. They are mistaken.

  Tom Robbins

  Fear, Believe, Fire

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• If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ?

  Justin Brown

  Bible, Religion, Atheism

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• Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Volleyball, Eye

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• I realize I didn't like you. I just wanted to meet someone that understood me. I didn't know that you were speaking from the diary. I had mistaken it for love.

  Jo Yoon-hee

  Drama, Diaries, Realizing

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• Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they reason, we need an equally nasty Big Brother. Americans have forgotten that Lady Liberty is one ferocious mother when protecting her children.

  Mary Ruwart

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.

  Francois Fenelon

  Prayer, Father, Heart

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• His brother maintained that what sent people backing away was neither his size nor his mother's blood, but solely the expression on his face. To test Samuel's theory, Charles had tried smiling - and then solemnly reported to Samuel that he had been mistaken. When Charles smiled, he told Samuel, people just ran faster.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mother, Brother, Expression

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.34, Penguin

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• I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Lying, Believe, Sometimes

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• [Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one.

  Frantz Fanon

  Thinking, Savages, Looks

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• I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

  Madeline Miller

  Heart, Cutting, People

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.48, A&C Black

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• Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often.

  Craig Ferguson

  Men, Law, Broken

  Craig Ferguson (2007). “Between the Bridge and the River”, p.208, Chronicle Books

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• There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's also something in it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions. It is a stronger angel, and therefor, when it falls, a fiercer devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Mistake, Fall

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