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«Suppose that we, to-morrow or the next day, / Came to an end - in storm the shafting broken, / Or a mistaken signal, the flange lifting - / Would that be premature, a text for sorrow?»
«There is not any thing, which has contributed so much to delude mankind in religious matters, as mistaken apprehensions concerning supernatural inspiration or revelation; not considering that all true religion originates from reason, and can not othe»
Author: Ethan Allen
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apprehensions, concerning, Considering, contributed, delude, deludes, deluding, mistaken, originates, revelation, supernatural
«Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of specu»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
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abuse, height, mistaken, mysteries, prescription, prescriptions, vague
«Three times in my life I have been captured: by the orphanage, by school, and by the Army. But I'm mistaken. The fact is I was captured only once, when I was born, only that capture is also setting free, which is what this is actually all about. The»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
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army, Born Free, capture, captured, mistaken, orphanage, orphanages, setting, three times
«To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.»
«The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness; and the old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom»
«The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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elected, election, election of, English people, enslaved, gravely, lose it, Member of Parliament, mistaken, parliament, parliaments
«The anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that a»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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anarchists, an anarchist, assertion, assertions, existing, mistaken
«The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Gives us ham and pork and Bacon. Let others think his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.»
«The individual is always mistaken»
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