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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice. Gore Vidal

Moment, Chaos, Opinion, Prejudice, Given

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. Carl Bernstein

Today, Culture, Truth, People, Reality

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind. Djuna Barnes

Mind, Galaxy, Priceless

As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats. David Horsey

Anger, Drive, Political, Feel, Long, Us

Censorship no longer works by hiding information from you; censorship works by flooding you with immense amounts of misinformation, of irrelevant information, of funny cat videos, until you're just unable to focus. Yuval Noah Harari

Funny, Focus, Information, You, Cat

There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research. Virginia Foxx

Research, Abundance, Stem Cell Research

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Carl Bernstein

Culture, Truth, People, Reality, Real

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. John le Carre

Relationship, Truth, Performance, Better

Anything that's secret, clandestine, loaded with such a supercargo of speculation, misinformation, disinformation and, for that matter, accurate revelations, creates an appetite. Charles McCarry

Matter, Anything, Speculation, Secret

Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy. David Mixner

Change, Fear, Pain, Democracy, Process

One of these days when I'm finished coaching at Alabama, I'll write an authorized book because there's only one expert on my life, and guess who that is... me. And there won't be any misinformation. There won't be any false statements. There won't be any hearsay. There won't be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal. Nick Saban

Life, Me, Book, My Life, Coaching, Will

It's a free society. But don't tell the world that we can feed the present population without chemical fertilizer. That's when this misinformation becomes destructive. Norman Borlaug

Society, World, Free, Present, Without

You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation. James Daly

You, Noise, Distracted

I still think there's a big part of the population that has a lot of misinformation about sharks. But I think it's beginning to change a little bit. As good information about sharks permeates popular culture, things may start to change. Brian Skerry

Change, Good, Culture, Beginning, Start

There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.' Oren Peli

People, You, Say, Fires, Little, Go

It's amazing how much misinformation there is about pregnancy and how many myths are still ingrained into our culture. Jennifer Hyman

Culture, Amazing, Pregnancy, Myths, Our

One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case. Misunderstandings and misinformation abound. Norman Davies

Work, Time, Thought, Enough, Years, Out

What I believe is that a lot of the NSA's telephone metadata program is the result of misinformation spread by a traitor, Edward Snowden. Tom Cotton

Believe, Telephone, I Believe, Result

I think the bailouts in 2008 were wrong. And I think, you look in hindsight, it was a lot of misinformation that was presented about the bailouts of the banks in the West. Steve Bannon

Think, Look, You, Wrong, Hindsight, West

I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all. Sufjan Stevens

Beautiful, Imagination, Reality, Feel

If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it. Kapil Sibal

Money, People, Army, You, Innocent, Buy

Through studies of music and the brain, we've learned to map out specific areas involved in emotion, timing, and perception - and production of sequences. They've told us how the brain deals with patterns and how it completes them when there's misinformation. Daniel Levitin

Music, Brain, Perception, Timing, Map

As soon as you hear a proposition, the creative brain in humans assumes for the moment that it's true, and starts trying to find evidence. It's what computer scientists in the old days used to call 'Fifo:' first in, first out. The first piece of information that gets in has a privileged position, even if it's misinformation. Daniel Levitin

Creative, Moment, Brain, Trying, You

The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi has become a political football in the presidential campaign, with all the grandstanding and misinformation that entails. David Ignatius

Football, Political, Become, Attack

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act. Anne Campbell

Education, Higher Education, Page, New

We all agree on the core values of a free and open Internet. We simply may disagree on the appropriate regulatory framework for securing those values. And I would much rather have an open and honest debate about the appropriate regulatory framework as opposed to throwing misinformation out there to achieve political ends. Ajit Pai

Internet, Values, Free, Political, Open

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