"Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension."
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"Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength."
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"To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the conservative interest, that conservatism is simply a political argument in defense of large accumulations of private property, that expansion, centralization, and accumulation are the tenets of conservatives. From this confusion, from the popular belief that Hamilton was the founder of American conservatism, the forces of tradition in the United States never have fully escaped."
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"The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'"
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"We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move."
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"There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere."
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"One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions."
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"We often confuse what we wish for with what is."
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"Here's to the confusion of our enemies!"
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"The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation."
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"Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity."
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"London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion."
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"Downsides, yeah, and when there are more downsides when churches first start - they go through stages of transforming to becoming multiracial. So in the beginning stages there's often a lot of pain, a lot of confusion, a lot of people leave."
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"There is no love lost between us."
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"When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion."
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"Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability."
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"Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels."
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"I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value."
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"Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. (Wakefield)"
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"Peace of the sort that brings wholeness, harmony, and health to our lives only happens when chaos, confusion, and conflict are included and transcended."
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