#mislead

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about. ↗

— Brian Eno

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Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible. ↗

— Stonewall Jackson

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I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say. ↗

— Davy Jones

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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

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People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case. ↗

— Ken Salazar

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French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better. ↗

— Peter Singer

#behave #better #citizens #could #dark

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. ↗

— Edward Steichen

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