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I chose and my word was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken — the choosing was not. Just keep moving on... – Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Act 2	added by anonymous 13 years ago
At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world. – Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. – Robert A. Heinlein	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. – Jane Austen, Emma	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. – Arthuer Schopenhauer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain. – Bartholomew	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice. – Ambrose Bierce	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. – Oliver Cromwell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are. – Penelope Fitzgerald	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. – George Stanley McGovern	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another. – Henry Louis Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether. – Neil Postman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. – Arthur Schopenhauer	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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