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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
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A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.
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I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.
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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
Original:Il nest pas honteux pour lhomme de succomber sous la douleur et il est honteux de succomber sous le plaisir.
Source: Pensees (1669) -
It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
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It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
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Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.
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Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children.
Source: U.N. Says ‘Evidence’ Points to Israel in Gaza School Attack (2014) -
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.
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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
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There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
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Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
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Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace.
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