#distorted

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#both #commands #crude #distorted #life

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

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It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#did #distorted #fraudulent #ideology #marxists

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people. ↗

— Howard Dean

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The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again. ↗

— Dick Ebersol

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I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population. ↗

— Brad Carson

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I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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