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Letter "S" » shames
«There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.»
Author: Howard Zinn
(
Author,
Historian,
Political activist,
Professor)
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About:
Politics,
War
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Keywords:
cover,
covered up,
cover for,
cover up,
flag,
flagging,
Flag of,
innocent,
innocents,
innocent of,
killing,
killings,
large,
On the Cover,
shame,
shamed,
shames,
shaming
«The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.»
Author: Janet Malcolm
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Keywords:
beach,
confines,
deep water,
dominant,
dye,
dyed,
dyes,
exposing,
exposure,
fearlessly,
gentlemanly,
grieves,
journalist,
novelist,
plunges,
robe,
shames,
shore,
The Clean,
the novelist,
timorousness,
trait,
trembling
«There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.»
Author: Russian Proverb
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Keywords:
finding,
findings,
knowing,
lay out,
lies,
no.,
no,
out,
shame,
shamed,
shames,
shaming,
there is,
There is no
«Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(
Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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About:
Ignorance,
Learning
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Keywords:
ignorant,
shame,
shamed,
shames,
shaming,
so much,
unwilling
«Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them»
«Take this remark from Richard poor and lame, Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(
Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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Keywords:
anger,
begun,
ends,
lame,
lamed,
lames,
lamest,
poor,
remark,
Richard,
Richard I,
shame,
shamed,
shames,
shaming
«A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . . .»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
decisions,
delicate,
depths,
destiny,
few,
in depth,
meets,
paths,
reach,
shame,
shamed,
shames,
shaming
«The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Hypocrisy,
Morality,
Shame
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Keywords:
books,
calls,
immoral,
ITS,
shame,
shamed,
shames,
shaming,
show,
the books
«The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Books
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Keywords:
books,
calls,
immoral,
shame,
shamed,
shames,
shaming,
show,
the books
«Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.»