#confusion

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#confusion #funny

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul. ↗

— George Carman

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

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Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought. ↗

— Alice Miller

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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. ↗

— Henry Miller

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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. ↗

— John Milton

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