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Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.
Judith Martin / Journalist
Technology
New Technology
People
Thinking
Technology People New
Mistakenly
Old One
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Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
Margaret Atwood / Poet
Benevolent
Nice
People
Thinking
Betrays
Mistakenly
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Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.
Mark Linn-Baker /
Farce
Polished
Broad
Mistakenly
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Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
Elihu Root / Former U.s. Senator
Believe
Honest
Honest People
Injustice
Justice
People
Support
Believing
Cause
Led
Mistakenly
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Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.
Joe Baca / Former U.s. Representative
Independence
Independence Day
Mexico
Years
Mayo
Mistakenly
Refer
Thousands
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Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.
Walt Mossberg / Journalist
Credit
Ibm
Apple
Apple Ii
Earlier
Mistakenly
Pc
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Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.
Chris Kilham / Author
Corporations
Mining
Resources
Short Sighted
Timber
Valued
Governments
Mistakenly
Solely
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Playing middle pairs like 10-10, 9-9, 8-8, and 7-7 can be difficult but only if you overvalue them and mistakenly play them as you would premium hands.
Daniel Negreanu / Professional Poker Player
Pairs
Premium
Mistakenly
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I helped write the expunction code in the State of Texas to give people the opportunity to have their names cleared when they have been mistakenly arrested.
Marc Veasey / United States Representative
Arrested
Code
Cleared
Mistakenly
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When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Being Famous
Love Me
Mistakenly
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
Larry J. Sabato /
Congressional
Elections
Mistakenly
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After the 1929 crash, the Federal Reserve mistakenly focused its policies on preserving the gold value of the dollar rather than on stabilizing the domestic economy.
Ben Bernanke / Economist
Crash
Federal Reserve
Gold
Dollar
Domestic
Mistakenly
Policies
Preserving
Reserve
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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
Malcolm Gladwell / Journalist
Brilliant
Good Yourself Your
Believing
Student
Elite
Good Student
Mistakenly
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Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.
Mary Karr / Poet
Young Writers
Blot
Escape
Mistakenly
Vein
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Due to mistakenly believing that outer problems are their own problems, most people seek ultimate refuge in the wrong objects. As a result, their suffering and problems never end.
Kelsang Gyatso /
Objects
Refuge
Ultimate
Believing
Due
Seek
Mistakenly
Outer
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Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone will be punished mistakenly.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Accepting
Institutions
Not Perfect
Perfect
Possibility
Cannot
Courts
Criminal
Juries
Mistakenly
Punished
System
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I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Nobility
Include
Mistakenly
Nowadays
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When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
S. Ansky /
Behalf
Literature
Oppressed
Twenty Five
Years Ago
Among
Work Me Find
Jews
Masses
Mistakenly
Seemed
Stepped
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I think audiences sometimes mistakenly assume a quality performance comes from some great emotional disturbance rather than really intense concentration. Concentration and flow is what it's all about.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Concentration
Disturbance
Flow
Intense
Assume
Mistakenly
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
Malcolm Turnbull / Member Of The Australian Parliament
Access
Different
Entitlement
Hindsight
Models
News
Newspapers
Online
Busily
Experimenting
Free Access
Mistakenly
Readers
Suspect
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People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
Anthony De Mello / Writer
Conclusion
Heart
Reasoning
Spiritual
Thinking
Assume
Commands
Defend
Dictates
Head
Mistakenly
Provide
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Many of us mistakenly believe a coup d'etat is the only kind of coup possible. But a coup doesn't always require tanks on a lawn and senior ranking military types appearing on your TV and radio declaring that democracy as you knew it, is now over.
Clive Lewis /
Appearing
Declaring
Military
Radio
Ranking
Senior
Tanks
Coup
Lawn
Mistakenly
Require
Types
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In New Classical theory, periods of declining employment - business cycle downturns - may be caused by an unexpected decline in aggregate demand, which leaves workers mistakenly holding out for nominal wages that exceed the new market-clearing level.
George Akerlof / Economist
Decline
Demand
Employment
Exceed
Periods
Theory
Unexpected
Wages
Workers
Caused
Aggregate
Classical
Cycle
Holding
Leaves
Mistakenly
Nominal
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You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.
Margaret Atwood / Poet
Oppressed
People
Point Of View
Pyramids
Views
Women Are
Male
Handmaid
Mistakenly
Narrator
Organise
Pyramid
Tale
Tends
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As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.
Steve Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Blue
Npr
Summer
Towns
Heart Me People
Collar
Mistakenly
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Most people believe, mistakenly, that wealth in a human society has something to do with money, but that's not true. Money is simply a medium of exchange. Prosperity in a human society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems that we create for ourselves.
Nick Hanauer / Venture Capitalist
Human Society
Prosperity
Solutions
Wealth
Accumulate
Exchange
Medium
Mistakenly
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Real estate was one of the first things I was doing. I kinda like mistakenly fell into that. I bought a house early in my career, and in my head, it was like, if everything goes wrong, I own this one house, you know... As I started doing concerts and more concerts, I started buying more houses.
Yo Gotti / Rapper
Buying
Concerts
Estate
First Things
Houses
Mistakenly
Real Estate
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I think the press mistakenly thought that all of these 'mumblecore' filmmakers were banded together in a similar ideology, but the truth is that we were all just using the same digital camera and helping each other make our movies because we were broke, and we were the only idiots willing to do it.
Jay Duplass / Film Director
Broke
Ideology
Idiots
Mistakenly
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A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was improvising only: 'Stand-up's terrible.' It's so ignorant and stupid to do that. But it's easy to do that. So that's where I came from.
Kurt Braunohler / Comedian
Blanket
Ignorant
Improvising
Appeal
Assume
Mistakenly
Statement
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The year my mom worked as a secretary at an apparel company in midtown, she would often come home in tears because she had mistakenly called her boss by another coworker's name. 'You know how it is,' my father said, 'they all look the same. It's not your mom's fault. There's just no telling them apart. Same high nose and deep-set eyes.'
Jenny Zhang /
Apparel
Secretary
Tears
Apart
Mistakenly
Nose
Telling
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