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«Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice.»
Author: Charles T. Sprading
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Right
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antithesis, confuse, definitions, ethical, legal, legal right, synonym, synonyms, writers
«Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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celebrity, confuse, dangerously, degrading, depriving, hero worship, models, notoriety
«Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.»
«Don't confuse having a career with having a life»
«By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
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appeal, argued, at any cost, cheat, claims, confuse, decorous, disputes, fairly, frank, General Public, oddly, Old Course, patiently, peculiarly, persuade, public works, scholars, scholarship, sex appeal, standards, worldly
«Don't confuse selling with art.»
Author: Jack Taylor
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confuse
«Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.»
«Don't confuse facts with reality.»
«Do not confuse peace of mind with spaced-out insensitivity. A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.»
Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
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confuse, insensitivity, peaceful, Peace of, peace of mind, sensitive, spaced-out, spaced
«Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
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Fame,
Success
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confuse, Helen, Helen Keller, Keller, Madonna, with success
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