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  • Dick Gregory Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.
    Dick Gregory
    African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017)
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  • Edward R. Murrow Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
    Edward R. Murrow
    American broadcast journalist and war correspondent (1908 - 1965)
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  • Boris Pasternak A candle burned on the table, a candle burned... he whispered to himself — the beginning of something confused, formless; he hoped that it would take shape of itself. But nothing more came to him.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Henry Waldorf Francis A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
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  • Benjamin Cardozo A judge is to give effect in general not to his own scale of values, but to the scale of values revealed to him in his readings of the social mind.... Objective tests may fail him, or may be confused as to bewilder. He must then look within himself.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Ernest Hemingway A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
    Death in the Afternoon (1932) Ch. 16
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Aristotle Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Richard Marcinko Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.
    Richard Marcinko
    American Navy officer and Vietnam War veteran (1940 - )
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  • Bo Bennett Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas, but when any of these words, especially hope, is confused with action, the results are much more devastating.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Stevie Smith Death must be distinguished from dying, with which it is often confused.
    Stevie Smith
    English poet and novelist (1902 - 1971)
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  • Lord Chesterfield History is but a confused heap of facts.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Daniel Boone I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
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  • Baruch Spinoza I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Robert Frost I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Goldwyn If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
    Samuel Goldwyn
    American producer (1882 - 1974)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • George Carlin May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Barry Lopez People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Iris Murdoch Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • George Gilder Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.
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