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Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Women, Men, May

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck

Success, Fame, Madonna

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal

Time, Words, Vote

Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway

Action, Movement

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan Watts

God, Thinking, While

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Single, Defeat, Final

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
Hillary Clinton

Words, Democracy, Often

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

May, Honest, Dissent

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli

Mind, Wish, Others

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kin Hubbard

Bad, Destiny, Management

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
Harry S. Truman

Work, Time, Political

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Simone de Beauvoir

Work, Men, Truth

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Michael J. Fox

God, Business, Perfection

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. J. Liebling

Read, News, Newspapers

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
Stanley Kubrick

Love, Mistake, Pity

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
E. O. Wilson

Wrong, Both, Close

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. Murrow

America, Soul, Loyal

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
Yves Saint Laurent

Elegance, Snobbery

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Marlon Brando

Talent, Size, Paycheck

It's hard for people to see you one way, but you're really the other way, so it's kind of like, 'Who am I, who are you?' Sometimes, I confuse even myself.
Nicole Polizzi

Hard, Sometimes

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden

Aim, Writers, Bother

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Equality, Everyone, Chance

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
Denis Diderot

Bad, Different, Revelation

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
Dennis Prager

Good, Strength, Weak

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
Brenda Blethyn

Success, Often, Fame

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 labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
Lewis Thomas

War, Human, Everything

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.
Matthew Fox

Beauty, Beautiful, Human

I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.
Christian Bale

Down, Afraid, Fact

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