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  • These guys were writing from the viewpoint of hackers (the good kind, the guys who built the Internet culture, not the kind commnonly mis-called hackers in the media but more properly called crackers, who have a culture of scoring points with their peers for breaking the security at websites and vandalizing them).

    The Cluetrain Manifesto 2006

  • English realists, or ugliness, sheer fact, mis-called truth, without beauty; what he wants is fidelity to _common_ truth, a realisation of the root, primitive facts -- the most grim primitive facts -- that hard basis of fact which must be accepted before the imagination can bear fruit.

    Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

  • "_O Timotheus, guard your trust, and eschew the irreverent empty phrases and contradictions of a mis-called 'Science,' professing which some have missed their true aim in regard to the faith. _"

    Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer

  • A man who steadily looks forward to being crucified by the people he is trying to help is hardly one of the absent-minded enthusiasts, mis-called idealists.

    The Jesus of History T. R. Glover

  • The very presence of this mis-called weakness, however, is unmistakable proof of great mental strength, and those who suffer from it may find solace in the fact that the giants of commerce, leading statesmen, and great men of affairs in general are frequently thus afflicted all through the periods of their greatest activity and success.

    Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs Henry H. Harper

  • But there need not necessarily be that coarseness of sentiment, that crudity of thought, that bigotry of limited sympathy, mis-called patriotism, which has debased the level of so much of Mr. Kipling's writing.

    Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

  • A man who steadily looks forward to being crucified by the people he is trying to help is hardly one of the absent-minded enthusiasts, mis-called idealists.

    The Jesus of History Glover, T R 1916

  • The ICONOCLAST desires to see Baylor a veritable pantechnicon of learning -- at least a place where the careful student may acquire something really worth remembering -- instead of a Dotheboys (and girls) hall, a Squeeritic graft to relieve simple Baptist folk of their hard-earned boodle by beludaling the brains of their bairns with mis-called education.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • But I do not forgive him for talking here against the 'ideals of poets' ... opposing their ideal by a mis-called reality, which is another sort, a baser sort, of ideal after all.

    The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898

  • The mis-called Age of Reason, and the atheistical abominations culminating in the French Revolution stand as ineffaceable testimony of what man may become when glorying in his denial of God.

    Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897

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