"Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus."
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"I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion."
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"The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny."
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"It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought."
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"In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word."
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"Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less; we're trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It's a cultural confusion and it is deliberate."
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"The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche."
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"At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies."
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
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"I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing."
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"Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion."
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"Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed."
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"And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building."
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"Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview."
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"Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that."
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"It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion."
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"So quick bright things come to confusion."
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"The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of sulphates, sulphites, and sulphures, may have served no end than to have retarded the progress of science by a jargon, from the confusion of which time will be requisite to extricate us."
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"We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives."
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"Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world."
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