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• Climate is not responding to greenhouse gases in the way we thought it might. If increasing carbon dioxide is in fact increasing climate change, its impact is smaller than natural variation. People are being misled by people making money out of this.

  Chris de Freitas

  Impact, People, Climate

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• It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Lying, People, Leader

  "Blowback Strikes US" by Larry Mosqueda, www.counterpunch.org. September 18, 2001.

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• The people of America are tired of being misled.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Tired, America, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Mistake, Ambition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.27, Harvard University Press

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• Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things.... But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Children, Order, Giving

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• The question of whether we were misled into the war in Iraq isn't a liberal or conservative or Republican or Democratic question, it's an American one. Protecting the democracy that we ask our sons and daughters to die for is our responsibility and our trust. Demanding accountability from our leaders is our job as citizens. It's the American way. So may the truth win out.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Daughter, Jobs, War

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• Living sites are only as good as today's update. If the words are dull, nobody will read them, and nobody will come back. If the words are wrong, people will be misled, disappointed, infuriated. If the words aren't there, people will shake their heads and lament your untimely demise.

  Mark Bernstein

  People, Demise, Dull

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• Don't be misled into believing that somehow the world owes you a living. The boy who believes that his parents, or the government, or any one else owes him his livelihood and that he can collect it without labor will wake up one day and find himself working for another boy who did not have that belief and, therefore, earned the right to have others work for him.

  David Sarnoff

  Life, Believe, Boys

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• Do not be misled by hearing of anyone's reputation.

  Umar

  Hearing, Reputation

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• Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.

  Umar

  Prayer, Fasting, Looks

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• The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  War, Winning, People

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• Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Appearance, Deceptive

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• Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.

  William Shenstone

  Color, Choices, Style

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• I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Desire, Quests, Belief

  Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2005). “Détente Or Destruction, 1955-57”, p.83, Psychology Press

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• The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines are constructed from entirely different materials and on quite different principles. When engineers have tried to draw inspiration from a study of the way animals work they have usually been misled; the history of early attempts to construct flying machines with flapping wings illustrates this very clearly.

  Maurice Wilkes

  Inspiration, Animal, Wings

  "Computers Then and Now". Journal of the ACM 15, Sect. 4, (pp. 1-7), January 1968.

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• Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

  Will Rogers

  History, Source, Unreliable

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.33, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

  William Osler

  Fall, Two, Mind

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.21, Ravenio Books

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• You should not be misled about the so-called single opposition candidate. There are so many of them now that you will lack the fingers to count them.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Should, Fingers, Opposition

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• Are you an Israeli? I don't debate with Israelis. I have been misled, sorry. I don't recognise Israel and I don't debate with Israelis.

  George Galloway

  Sorry, Israel, Debate

  "George Galloway refuses to debate with Israeli student at Oxford" by Warren Murray, Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.

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• I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to.

  Thomas Merton

  Success, Writing, Mean

  Thomas Merton (1996). “Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk & Writer”, Harper San Francisco

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• The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.

  Katy Lederer

  Thinking, Useless, Ghost

  "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.

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• Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Bird, Temptation

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• suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you - who you really are - do survive.

  June Jordan

  Suicide, Thinking, Survival

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.93, Basic Books

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• In 2003 I was saying, where are the ties [between Iraq] and al-Qaida? Where are the ties to 9/11? I knew it; where the f**k were these Democrats who said, 'We were misled'? That's the kind of thing that drives me crazy: 'We were misled.' F**k you, you weren't misled. You were afraid of being called unpatriotic.

  George Clooney

  Crazy, Lying, Iraq

  "I've learned how to fight". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2006.

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• Dennis has not behaved well and the fact he has taken it with bad grace shows we made the right decision. It smacks of sour grapes. He said he would be happy to continue playing as long as the new manager wanted him so in no way was he misled. He said he was assured the job was his, but that is simply not true.

  Rupert Lowe

  Jobs, Lying, Taken

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