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Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
Paulo Coelho
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Paulo Coelho
Brazilian
Novelist
Born:
Aug 24
,
1947
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If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S Truman
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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Men
Men And Women
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Dare
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Never
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Accepted
Blood
America
May
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Heirs
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Honest
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. Murrow
Soul
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Think
Dissent
Must
Opposition
America
Dies
Loyal
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal
Time
You
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People
Words
Disguise
Election
Language
Liberate
Will
Own
Confuse
Action
Too
Destroying
City
Time People
Decadent
Against
Interests
Used
Grow
Illuminate
Grows
Societies
Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
Eckhart Tolle
Thoughts
You
Suffering
Wonderful
Problem
World
Confuse
Thinking
Tool
Fine
Only
Becomes
Source
Problematic
Them
Then
Create
Who
Things
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan Watts
God
Spirituality
Confuse
Thinking
Peel
Peeling
About
Potatoes
Does
Just
While
Zen
Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin
Confuse
Action
Never
Motion
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Michael J. Fox
God
Business
Confuse
Excellence
Perfection
Reach
Am
Careful
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. J. Liebling
News
People
Confuse
Everywhere
Read
Newspapers
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
Harry S Truman
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You
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