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If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S Truman
You
Confuse
Them
Convince
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
Women
Men
Men And Women
Confuse
Dissent
Dare
Spirit
Never
Doctrine
Accepted
Blood
America
May
Subversion
Disloyal
Heirs
Who
Descended
Rebels
Here
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
Confuse
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
Vote
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
Work
Time
You
Political
Old
Confuse
Trick
Plain
Convince
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Marlon Brando
Money
Confuse
Never
Talent
Size
Your
Paycheck
Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.
Lynn Coady
Good
Gender
Confuse
Manners
Our
Good Manners
Ease
Ensure
Definition
Strive
Neutral
Simply
Feels
Traditional
Times
Person
Means
Etiquette
Company
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
Paulo Coelho
Confuse
Humility
Must
One Thing
About
Absolutely
Clear
False
False Modesty
Modesty
Us
Let Us
Thing
Servility
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Simone de Beauvoir
Work
Truth
World
Men
Own
Confuse
Absolute
Point
Point Of View
Absolute Truth
Like
Itself
Representation
Which
View
Describe
The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
William S. Burroughs
Technology
Confuse
Purpose
Brain
Body
Serve
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
Yves Saint Laurent
Snobbery
Confuse
Must
Never
Elegance
One of the magical things about kindness is that it's what we nerds call a 'happiness aggregator.' People confuse kindness with being nice. And they're very different. You can be nice and be passive. But kindness requires action.
Daniel Lubetzky
Happiness
Kindness
You
People
Be Nice
Confuse
Action
Nice
Nerds
About
Magical
Call
Passive
Very
Being
Different
Being Nice
Requires
Things
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli
You
Mind
Wish
Own
Confuse
Others
Minds
Frank
Take
Conceal
Line
Explicit
Your
Right
The whole point of corporate mascots is to be distinctive. No one in his right mind would ever confuse the Hamburglar with Mayor McCheese.
Gene Weingarten
Mind
Confuse
Right Mind
Corporate
Distinctive
Would
Point
No-One
His
Mayor
Whole
Ever
Right
In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.
Robert Kiyosaki
Experience
People
Cowardly
Confuse
Nice
Being
Being Nice
Many
Voter fraud is a reality in American elections, but it is typical of the candidate to confuse anecdote with data and turn allegation into conspiracy.
Bret Stephens
Reality
Conspiracy
Confuse
Typical
Fraud
Anecdote
Allegation
Data
Voter
Voter Fraud
American
Candidate
Turn
Elections
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
David Cronenberg
Reality
Illusion
Confuse
Only
Tend
We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good.
Robert Winston
God
Good
Great
Religion
Relationship
Technology
Science
Evil
Confuse
Relation
Must
Prompt
Both
Pursuit
Leading
Does
Conduct
Capable
Mankind
Stands
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Mathematics
Great
Science
Reality
Opportunity
Confuse
Imagination
Consider
About
More
Arid
Had
Arithmetic
Knowing
However
Any
Which
Requires
Who
Many
Amount
I think people sometimes confuse 'catchy' with something that should automatically be a hit in today's world. I mean, obviously we write a lot of stuff that's catchy, that sticks in your head. But that doesn't necessarily mean that middle-school kids are going to want to listen to a song about a lawyer or a Subaru or whatever.
Adam Schlesinger
Today
People
Song
World
Sometimes
Lawyer
Whatever
Confuse
Think
Kids
About
Something
Write
Head
Catchy
Stuff
Obviously
Sticks
Lot
Hit
Going
Listen
Want
Automatically
Mean
Should
Your
Necessarily
In hotels, every time I make a reservation and they never find my name, they never can pronounce it; it's so long, and sometimes they confuse.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Time
Sometimes
Long
Confuse
Reservation
Every
Every Time
Find
Pronounce
Never
Hotels
Name
Make
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