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People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
Anthony de Mello
Heart
People
Will
First
Thinking
Assume
Head
Mistakenly
Conclusion
Provide
Commands
Dictates
Done
Which
Then
Reasoning
Actually
Defend
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.
Margaret Atwood
You
Women
People
Somewhere
Power
Tell
Would
Point
Could
Point Of View
Tends
Pick
Pyramid
Tale
Mistakenly
Felt
Narrator
Male
Oppressed
Women Are
Itself
Handmaid
Interesting
Organise
View
Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
Margaret Atwood
Nature
People
Some People
Nice
Think
Benevolent
Some
Betrays
Never
Mistakenly
Very
Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
Malcolm Turnbull
News
Entitlement
Free
Once
Free Access
Online
Given
Mistakenly
Readers
Hindsight
Felt
Access
Very
Models
Suspect
Different
Experimenting
Newspapers
Busily
Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.
Mary Karr
You
Yourself
Style
Young
Out
Writers
Vein
Mistakenly
Escape
Blot
Trying
Often
Want
Young Writers
Certain
Choose
Who
Based
Actually
Playing middle pairs like 10-10, 9-9, 8-8, and 7-7 can be difficult but only if you overvalue them and mistakenly play them as you would premium hands.
Daniel Negreanu
You
Difficult
Would
Only
Like
Mistakenly
Hands
Middle
Them
Premium
Pairs
Play
Playing
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
Elihu Root
Justice
Injustice
People
Cause
Support
Mistakenly
Led
Believing
Honest
Honest People
Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.
Joe Baca
Day
Independence
Year
Every
Independence Day
Thousands
Mistakenly
Refer
Mexico
American
Mayo
Due to mistakenly believing that outer problems are their own problems, most people seek ultimate refuge in the wrong objects. As a result, their suffering and problems never end.
Kelsang Gyatso
Suffering
People
Result
Problems
Own
Outer
Seek
Objects
Never
Wrong
Most
Mistakenly
Due
Ultimate
End
Refuge
Believing
I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class.
Julian Fellowes
Class
Nowadays
Fact
Nobility
Come
Mistakenly
Essentially
In Fact
Which
Used
Include
A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was improvising only: 'Stand-up's terrible.' It's so ignorant and stupid to do that. But it's easy to do that. So that's where I came from.
Kurt Braunohler
Me
World
Stupid
Assume
Statement
Easy
Only
Blanket
Make
Terrible
Mistakenly
Because
Came
Lot
Did
Improvising
Where
Ignorant
Appeal
Awful
I think the press mistakenly thought that all of these 'mumblecore' filmmakers were banded together in a similar ideology, but the truth is that we were all just using the same digital camera and helping each other make our movies because we were broke, and we were the only idiots willing to do it.
Jay Duplass
Truth
Together
Truth Is
Digital
Thought
Ideology
Think
Other
Our
Press
Broke
Willing
Similar
Only
Make
Mistakenly
Because
Idiots
Were
Camera
Same
Just
Movies
Helping
Using
Each
Filmmakers
Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.
Mark Linn-Baker
People
Comedy
Think
Broad
High
Fact
Mistakenly
Polished
In Fact
Low
Farce
Many