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“When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.”
Herbert Spencer
“Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.”
William S. Burroughs
“When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.”
Joni Mitchell
“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.”
W. Edwards Deming
“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age”
Albert Einstein
“Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.”
W. H. Auden
“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.”
Yves Saint Laurent
“Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.”
Kin Hubbard
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