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• "Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

  Brigid Brophy

  Compassion, People, Abuse

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• Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

  Gary Bauer

  Wicked, News, Republican

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• I - listen, racism - being a racist is the worst thing you can say about somebody. I mean, it is such a charged accusation. And I really think people should be very careful before they level that.

  Megyn Kelly

  Mean, Thinking, Racism

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• Look, this debate is basic: it's small government vs. big government. So how cowardly do folks like Blood and Frank Rich have to be that they can't man up and defend their love for collectivism? The only reason they scream race, is because that debate scares them. They know a racial accusation prevents dialogue, because such a harmful charge far outweighs any benefits of winning an argument.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Men, Winning, Blood

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• What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.

  Steven Levitan

  Creative, Community, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.

  Clive Barker

  Selling, Selling Out

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was 'found' guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a 'true bill'.

  Edward Jenks

  Men, May, Bills

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to the end that the mind and spirit of his children should never escape, Homo Sapiens has employed praise, ridicule, admonition, accusation, mutilation, and even torture to chain them to the culture pattern.

  Jules Henry

  Children, Freedom, Men

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• Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.

  James Fenton

  Might, Common, Form

  "Negative images" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.

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• Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn't give it a second thought. We were involved in a terribly acrimonious breakup, with great enmity between us and a custody battle slowly gathering energy. The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn't even hire a lawyer to defend myself. It was my show business attorney who told me she was bringing the accusation to the police and I would need a criminal lawyer.

  Woody Allen

  Breakup, Children, Self

  "Woody Allen Speaks Out". www.nytimes.com. February 7, 2014.

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• Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it usually meant that she was not being taken seriously. She heard it as an accusation — a device ostensibly distinguishing her from ordinary people so as to simultaneously discount her words and deeds while exempting others from moral responsibility to speak and act.

  William Stringfellow

  Memories, Blessed, Taken

  William Stringfellow (2005). “A Simplicity of Faith: My Experience in Mourning”, p.134, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I just think what we ought to do is we ought to stop seizing one moments of tragedy. We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action. But, you know, enough of this seeking every opportunity to demean law enforcement broadly by making the accusation of implicit bias every time tragedy occurs.

  Mike Pence

  Loss, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• How important are money management and finances in marriage and family affairs? Tremendously. The American Bar Association recently indicated that 89 percent of all divorces could be traced to quarrels and accusations over money. Another study estimated that 75 percent of all divorces result from clashes over finances. Some professional counselors indicated that four out of every five families wrestle with serious money problems.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Divorce, Important, Four

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• And I think anyone would be interested to get to the bottom of accusations related to minors and related to abuse. So, I would challenge the issue of bogus accusations. And I think it's important to recognize the impartiality of the Egyptian judicial system.

  Sameh Shoukry

  Thinking, Challenges, Abuse

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The accusation of cultural insensitivity is a weapon.

  Bassam Tibi

  Weapons, Insensitivity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

  Gunter Grass

  Crush, Art, Passion

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• The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.

  August Strindberg

  Husband, Eye, Jealous

  August Strindberg (1967). “A Madman's Defense”, Peter Smith Pub Incorporated

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• Long ago the accusations had begun,
  And suddenly knew by whom it had been judged

  W. H. Auden

  Long Ago, Judgment, Judged

  W. H. Auden, “In Memory Of Sigmund Freud”

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• On, those ever-changing moods of Moscow! How swiftly they go from black to white, from one extreme to another, from friendship to accusations, from adoration to hatred, from the permissive 'da' to that annihilating 'nyet.' Those eternal swings from a thaw to a freeze, whims that disregard their own rules, norms, and regulations!

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Swings, White, Hatred

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”

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• Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

  Horace

  Wall, Evil, Done

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• suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Suicide, Defense, Lasts

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• Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]

  Margaret Thatcher

  Wells, Response, Reactionaries

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• The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Opportunity, Government, Definitions

  "Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2013.

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• People tend to believe accusations more than denials.

  Mary McMullen

  Believe, People, Denial

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• Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.

  Jane Porter

  Confidence, People, Failing

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.208

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