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«Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.»
Author: Gen William C. Westmoreland
| About:
Censorship,
War
| Keywords:
censorship, confused, terribly, Vietnam, Vietnam War
«Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.»
Author: George Gilder
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beleaguer, Beleaguered, confused, families, liberation, masculinity, panacea, politically, sexuality, sustained, The Movement, uncertain, unpromising
«Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.»
«Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
confused, indifference, misguide, misguided
«The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom; And all good things are thus confused with ill.»
«PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore. With the distinction of the two doctrines kept well in mind, and a reverent belief in both, one may hope to escape perdition if spared.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
affirm, Affirmed, affirming, Christendom, confused, deluge, deluges, distinction, doctrine, doctrines, entail, entailed, entailing, foreordination, gore, gored, gores, implication, ink, occur, occurrence, occurrences, perdition, predestination, programme, programmed, reverent, spared, The Deluge, with that
«The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.»
«Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
across, bolt, bolted, bolt of lightning, cars, car window, cities, confused, desert, driving, factories, head start, highway, imagining, in the middle, lightning, Lightning Strikes, stick, struck, window
«The first quality for a commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
Bad News, commander, commanders, commander in chief, Commander in Chief of, confused, First Impressions, in-chief