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“The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between people and their function; or rather, people are tempted to identify with the function they perform. This is what's happening, particularly in totalitarian soc”
Eugene Ionesco
“Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the”
Winston Churchill
“Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.”
W. Edwards Deming
“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behaviour. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as some day, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
J. D. Salinger
“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age”
Albert Einstein
“Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.”
D.H. Lawrence
“Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.”
Kin Hubbard
“Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.”
Charles Baudelaire
“The veil of confusion gently falls away,Like the dank mist on a dull autumn day.Revealing the path that lies there before me,To step forward or not, what will it be?”
Gabriella Goddard
“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.”
Yves Saint Laurent
