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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension."

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Stewart Lee Comedian, Writer
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"I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable."

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Murray Walker Motorsport Commentator
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"I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known."

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Thomas Mann Novelist
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"The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every accessory was so costly and beautiful that it had an existence above and beyond the purpose it was meant to serve – confusing the observer and absorbing attention."

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Murray Gell-Mann Physicist
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"All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests and there is no reason to believe that there is any flaw in it. We all know how to use it and how to apply it to problems; and so we have learned to live with the fact that nobody can understand it."

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Freeman Dyson Theoretical Physicist
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"When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in every war."

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Chaz Bono Author, Activist, Musician
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"As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender."

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"That was an instance where I was given a word to define my confusing experience, and I'm just like, "nah.""

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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation."

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