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• It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are ordinary people who like to write. They feel the urge to write, and they scratch that itch every chance they get.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Ralph Fletcher (2010). “How Writers Work: Finding a Process That Works for You”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

  Peter Weir

  Moving, Australia, Feelings

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• A man of purpose focuses on his destination, not his situation. Don't let your situation mislead you!

  T. B. Joshua

  Men, Purpose, Destination

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• Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Art, Style

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• There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, War, Government

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• Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.

  John Muir

  Real, Imagination, Fantasy

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.321, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe the old cliché, 'God helps those who help themselves,' is not only misleading but often dead wrong. My most spectacular answers to prayers have come when I was so helpless, so out of control as to be able to do nothing at all for myself.

  Catherine Marshall

  Prayer, Believe, Answers

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• Kundalini is almost a misleading word, unless you define it as broadly as I do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism

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• wrongness always seems to come at us from left field - that is, from outside ourselves. But the reality could hardly be more different. Error is the ultimate inside job. Yes, the world can be profoundly confusing; and yes, other people can mislead or deceive you. In the end, though, nobody but you can choose to believe your own beliefs.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Jobs, Believe, Reality

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• As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Names, Groups, Republican

  "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulation, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks.

  James Bryant Conant

  Fighting, Science, Prejudice

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• I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

  Ehud Olmert

  Thinking, Iran, Dangerous

  "OLMERT: Iran hasn’t crossed line yet". Interview with Christiane Amanpour, amanpour.blogs.cnn.com. April 30, 2012.

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• The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the product goes to work on the hypnotized viewer. Those who have spent their lives protesting about 'false and misleading ad copy' are godsends to advertisers, as teetotalers are to brewers, and moral censors are to books and films. The protesters are the best acclaimers and accelerators. Since the advent of pictures, the job of the ad copy is as incidental and latent as the 'meaning' of a poem is to a poem, or the words of a song are to a song.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Song, Jobs, Book

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• A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

  Fairfax M. Cone

  Self, Dull, Advertising

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• ... the embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. It may be compared to an ancient manuscript, with many of the sheets lost, others displaced, and with spurious passages interpolated by a later hand. ... Like the scholar with his manuscript, the embryologist has by a process of careful and critical examination to determine where the gaps are present, to detect the later insertions, and to place in order what has been misplaced.

  Francis Maitland Balfour

  Hands, Order, Records

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• We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thinking, Civilization, Supposing That

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• Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.

  Linus Pauling

  Healing, Happy Life, Decision

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• Global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends.

  Pat Sajak

  Racist, Global Warming, Ends

  'Pat Sajak: “global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists”' by Jason Somenow, www.washingtonpost.com. May 20, 2014.

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• The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a sense a democracy, but it is one in which there are enormous inequities in the distribution of power and force. For example, the entire commercial and industrial system is in principle excluded from the democratic process, including everything that goes on within it

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Distribution Of Power, Democracy

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• You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

  David Attenborough

  People, Courses, Steers

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• Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

  Florence Nightingale

  Death, Science, Average

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.100, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

  Anita Brookner

  Life, Reading, Book

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• Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.

  Terry Pratchett

  Philosophy, Giving, Answers

  "Wyrd Sisters". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• The Senate voted 97-0 for an anti-spam bill to stop those annoying things you get on your computer. The senators made it very clear that when you start misleading the American people and start taking their money over false promises, that's our turf, buddy!

  Jay Leno

  People, Political, Promise

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• If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more enlightened he is, the more misery and mischief he will create for you.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Powerful, Thinking, Helping

  U. G. Krishnamurti, Rodney Arms (2002). “The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti”, p.146, Sentient Publications

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