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• Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Baseball, Inspirational Sports

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2017

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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.

  Billy Graham

  Men, Evil, Temptation

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• In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.

  Tahir Shah

  India, Explanation

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 21, 2013

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• The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

  James Agee

  Confusion, Volume, Mere

  James Agee (2005). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction”

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• Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!

  Robert Orben

  Girl, Funny Love, Confused

  Robert Orben (2012). “2500 Jokes to Start 'Em Laughing”, p.113, Doubleday

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• Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

  Gao Xingjian

  Love, Men, Holy

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• I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

  Walter Hill

  Looks

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• The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a realization of the scheme and of one's own part in it.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Wise, Children, Confused

  "The Bright Messenger: Blackwood Collections".

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• Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

  Michael Porter

  Opportunity, Hands

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• I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

  Sting

  Children, Real, Media

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• And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Reality, Acting, Difficult

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• The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

  Basil Bunting

  Confusion, Psychology, Trying

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• Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

  Piper Perabo

  Love Is, Age, Wells

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• The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

  Doris Lessing

  Birthday, Time, Years

  The Sunday Times (London), May 10, 1992.

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• Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.

  Scott Hamilton

  People, Fame, Advantage

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• I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.

  Piper Perabo

  Rain, Sunshine, Hot

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• We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Order, Organization, Trouble

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.

  Thomas Perry

  Lying, Book, Character

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.

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• I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

  Patricia Heaton

  Book, Shopping, Long

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• Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

  James Thurber

  Kindness, Thinking, Sixty Minutes

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.392, Library of America

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• Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

  William Westmoreland

  Confused, Silly, Thinking

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• I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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• This may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about.. when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Humor, Talking

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• As a teenager and even still now being 21, it's always love questions - it's always so confusing.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Teenager, Stills

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• English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.

  Bill Bryson

  Latin, Simple, English Grammar

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