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• The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

  Imre Lakatos

  Ocean, Becoming, Heuristics

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

  Iris Murdoch

  Passion, Moral, Indifference

  Iris Murdoch (1988). “The book and the brotherhood”, Viking, 1988

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• Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Humorous, Profound, Confusion

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• Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 23, 2014

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• It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Life, New Relationship

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2083, Delphi Classics

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• I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

  J. D. Salinger

  Love, Girl, Fall

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

  Stevie Wonder

  Hate, Understanding, Unity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.

  Toni Braxton

  Love, Stars, Fall

  Song: How Could an Angel Break My Heart, Album: Secrets, 1996

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• Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.

  Anne Roiphe

  Pain, Love Is, Knowing

  Anne Roiphe (1999). “1185 Park Avenue”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Boundaries, Genre, Multiple

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• The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Confusion, Biographies, Boat

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• However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Goes On, May, Faces

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser. Chapter One: "The Fear of Poetry", 1949.

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• Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

  Erwin Chargaff

  Science, Fog, Confusion

  Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco

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• I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

  Hazel Scott

  People, Religion

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• Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

  William Shakespeare

  Confusion, Emotion, Made

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [72]

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• May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I confused things with their names: that is belief.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Names, Belief

  Les Mots (The Words, 1964) "crire"

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• Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

  Hanoi Hannah

  War, Ideas, Emotion

  "The Mystery of Hanoi Hannah" by Don North, www.nytimes.com. February 8, 2018.

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• Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

  Jose Bergamin

  Pride, Men, Self

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• Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.

  Dick York

  Looks, Way, Felt

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• I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

  Daniel Boone

  Inspirational, Confusion, Pioneers

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• Actually, I don't really like being confused with my image.

  Eva Herzigova

  Being Confused

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• You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

  Winona Ryder

  Broken, Feelings, Pay

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• I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

  Josiah Warren

  Aggravation, Decline, Controversy

  Josiah Warren (1875). “True Civilization: A Subject of Vital and Serious Interest to All People; But Most Immediately to the Men and Women of Labor and Sorrow”, p.106

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• The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

  Gene Robinson

  Home, Bees, Range

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