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When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

~Annie Lennox

Topics: Beauty Came Coming Confusion Express Look Majority My Own Need Own Pain Personal Place Really Sense Some Songs Universal Were

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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

Topics: Business Call Confusion Dignity Even Give Human Human Life Law Life Make Order Possibility Reduce Same Same Time Scope Sense Time

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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

~Barbara Amiel

Topics: Confusion Idea New Nothing Peculiar Progress Recent Sometimes Time Understood West Whatever

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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

~Barry Hannah

Topics: Also Confusion Engage Escape Find Fun Get Jumping Just Kind Like Myself Old-Fashioned Out Pool Pretty Tell Trance Try Why Wonderful World Writing You

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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

Topics: Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confused Confusion Deformity Either Imagination Nature Only Order Our Relation Things Ugly Warn Would You

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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

Topics: Anything Anything Else Confusing Confusion Destructive Else Exhilaration Explain Infectious Lifetime Moment Mystic Poetry Psychology Purchases Terms Try

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After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is.

~Ben Fountain

Topics: After America Around Bush Confusion Depression Elected Fundamental More Note Out Please Question Re-Elected Read Say Set State Systematically Walking Way Why Writers

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Good legislation should bring clarity and not confusion.

~Bill Haslam

Topics: Bring Clarity Confusion Good Legislation Should

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Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

~Bob Dole

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I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.

~Bob Newhart

Topics: Because Between Confusion Gross Humor Kind Little Passing Same Same Thing Thing Think I Think

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