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There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Author:
Howard Zinn
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Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
Author:
Xun Zi
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Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.
Author:
Muhammad Yunus
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I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.
Author:
Thom Yorke
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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
Author:
Isoroku Yamamoto
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People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?
Author:
Robert Wyatt
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It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
Author:
Fred Woodworth
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It's kind of a shame that it's even an issue. Not being gay, I can't fully appreciate how complicated that is. In the article, the interviewer asked me, and I said that if I were, I would just say it.
Author:
Scott Wolf
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Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.
Author:
Mike Wilson
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Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
Author:
Earl Wilson
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.
Author:
Anthony Weiner
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Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
Author:
Damon Wayans
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Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Author:
Izaak Walton
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I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.
Author:
Julie Walters
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From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
Author:
John Updike
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Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.
Author:
Robert Towne
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It's a shame anyone had to lose that. What a great rivalry.
Author:
Mike Tice
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
Author:
Tertullian
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Author:
Randall Terry
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We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.
Author:
Julie Taymor
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The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.
Author:
Charles Talleyrand
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To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
Author:
Algernon Swinburne
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I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
Author:
Jock Sturges
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As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
Author:
Jock Sturges
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The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.
Author:
Pamela Stephenson
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Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.
Author:
Ronnie Spector
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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
Author:
George Soros
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You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
Author:
Will Smith
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It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
Author:
Sydney Smith
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For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
Author:
Charles Simmons
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I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.
Author:
Brooke Shields
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.
Author:
Kyra Sedgwick
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Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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We had this party in New York, and there were a lot of gay men there dressed up as the characters. I showed up just looking like myself, but it was a real case of shame. They looked so fantastic. We could never quite live up to it.
Author:
Jennifer Saunders
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.
Author:
Ryne Sandberg
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
Author:
Marquis Sade
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I promise not to become a source of shame for you.
Author:
Mikhail Saakashvili
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
Author:
Keanu Reeves
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The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
Author:
Jean Racine
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
Author:
Sydney Pollack
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A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
Author:
Jane Pauley
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The only shame is to have none.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
Author:
John Owen
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If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
Author:
Tenzing Norgay
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.
Author:
Johann Most
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
Author:
Joni Mitchell
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
Author:
J. Miller
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Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
Author:
Mark Millar
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The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
Author:
Sam Mendes
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Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.
Author:
Marian McPartland
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You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.
Author:
Billy Mays
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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.
Author:
Henry Mayhew
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Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
Author:
Bernard Mandeville
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We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.
Author:
Michelle Malkin
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
Author:
John Lyly
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It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.
Author:
Jennifer Lopez
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I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.
Author:
Rebecca Loos
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I gave up shame a long time ago.
Author:
John Lithgow
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The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.
Author:
Matthew Lesko
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In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
Author:
John Leonard
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It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.
Author:
Henry Lawson
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It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
Author:
Henry Lawson
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I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.
Author:
Lillie Langtry
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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
Author:
Louis Kronenberger
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Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor.
Author:
Karl Kraus
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I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.
Author:
Leo Kottke
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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
Author:
Paul Klee
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Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.
Author:
Ellen Key
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Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
Author:
Johannes Kepler
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It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.
Author:
Gary Kemp
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Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.
Author:
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way.
Author:
Davy Jones
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It's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour.
Author:
Paul Ince
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It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
Author:
Douglas Hyde
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Author:
Horace
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
Author:
Hesiod
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False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
Author:
Hesiod
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
Author:
Owen Hart
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I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
Author:
Randy Harrison
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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
Author:
Edward Halifax
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Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
Author:
Robert Half
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You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.
Author:
Whoopi Goldberg
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Shame, shame, shame. How many times have I told you not to be frightened? Have I not told you God looks after all his children?
Author:
Willis Goldbeck
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Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
Author:
John Gielgud
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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
Author:
Jean Genet
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The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
Author:
Marcus Garvey
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Author:
Jean Fontaine
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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
Author:
William Faulkner
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Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
Author:
Eliza Farnham
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Doubt is the brother of shame.
Author:
Erik Erikson
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Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
Author:
Blake Edwards
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
Author:
John Dryden
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I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that.
Author:
Roma Downey
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I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.
Author:
Kyan Douglas
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Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
Author:
Bob Dole
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But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
Author:
Thomas Day
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I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.
Author:
Jamie Curtis
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We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
Author:
George Crook
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
Author:
William Cowper
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The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
Author:
Pierre Corneille
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We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.
Author:
Jim Cooper
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My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.
Author:
Henry Constable
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That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move.
Author:
Robbie Coltrane
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I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.
Author:
Wesley Clark
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Author:
Elizabeth Browning
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It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.
Author:
Steve Brown
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We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys.
Author:
Bryan Brown
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After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.
Author:
Terry Brooks
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
Author:
Jacob Bronowski
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
Author:
Theodore Bikel
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If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
Author:
Ugo Betti
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I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.
Author:
Gerry Beckley
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Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
Author:
Martha Beck
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When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?
Author:
Glenn Beck
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I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.
Author:
Drew Barrymore
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Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
Author:
Charles Barkley
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.
Author:
David Axelrod
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I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
Author:
Richard Attenborough
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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Author:
Anacharsis
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Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.
Author:
Tori Amos
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
Author:
Marc Almond
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You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
Author:
Ted Allen
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I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.
Author:
Richie Allen
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If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
Author:
Aeschylus
