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• We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should listen carefully to the views of the cadres at the lowest levels. Be a pupil before you become a teacher; learn from the cadres at the lower levels before you issue orders.

  Mao Zedong

  Teacher, Views, Order

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• There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no mistake that we abolished institutional racism in this country around the same time. The easy thing to do is lay low, but then are we who we say we are? Do we actually stand for anything, if what we do stand for is under attack and we say nothing? There is nothing to be ashamed of here except to allow a radical and recessive group of people to bully and intimidate our mothers and sisters and daughters for exercising their right of choice.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Daughter, Mother, Country

  "Mark Ruffalo defends reproductive rights, talks about his mother’s illegal" by Katie Mcdonough, www.salon.com. August 19, 2013.

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• I don't want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.

  John Wayne

  Daughter, Mother, Men

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.51, Taylor Trade Publications

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• There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.

  Pat Summerall

  Mother, Daughter, Couple

  "Pat Summerall: Gridiron, God, and Graham". Interview With Andrew Knox, www.cbn.com.

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• When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Easter, Causes, Apologizing

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• Be ashamed to die until you have done something good for mankind.

  Vernon Johnson

  Military, Done, Mankind

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• Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public.

  Ernst Wilhelm von Brucke

  Biology, Shows, Biologist

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• What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence (says Johnson)? it is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure, reckoned too coarse for our own acceptance. Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Taken, Acceptance, Giving

  "Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson".

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• They can bite, but cannot be us,
  They can come and pick up little slang but cannot see us,
  You ought to be ashamed trying to fit in my adidas,
  So Run like DMC like you don't know you got no heater

  Andre Benjamin

  Running, Rap, Trying

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• Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving nourishment to the tree, slough off. We should not be ashamed to change our methods; rather we should be ashamed never to do so.

  Charles V. Chapin

  Book, Science, Giving

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• Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for their own advantage and without any fear, by dishonoring him through sin that they could abstain from, if they wanted. But they neither abstain from sin nor are they ashamed of their already committed sins, for they do not take into consideration their unworthiness of the kindness of the one whom they do not serve.

  Bridget of Sweden

  Kindness, People, Sin

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• ...only we don't call it 'ignorance', we call it 'faith'. What a horrible little word that is - faith - exuding as it does its fake aura of purity and virtue while fronting some of the ugliest ideas this planet has ever seen. Closing people's hearts when it should be opening them. Making them proud of things they should be ashamed of. And ashamed of things they should be proud of.

  Pat Condell

  Fear, Heart, Ignorance

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• We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'

  Desmond Tutu

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

  Confucius

  Integrity, No Friends, Faults

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Real, Thinking, Artist

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• Never be ashamed of your problems, your body, yourself. You are worth life.

  Demi Lovato

  Hate, Body, Problem

  Twitter post from Apr 24, 2011

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• Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Tears, Proud

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• Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or chokers or ribbon shirts in those days. Hell, I didn't wear 'em. People didn't Sun Dance, they didn't Sweat, they were losing their languages. Then there was that spark at Alcatraz, and we took off. Man, we took a ride across this country. We put Indians and Indian rights smack dab in the middle of the public consciousness for the first time since the so-called Indian wars.

  Russell Means

  Country, War, Men

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• The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Inspirational, Lions, Foxes

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• The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry
  The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy
  The books that people talk about we never can recall
  And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Men, Obscenity

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.119, Univ of California Press

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• The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Heart, Simplicity

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• Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Heart, Heaven

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Already a couple of the faithful have sent in checks for a foundation memorial to the innocents who perished at the hands of the ninja at Waco. ... I have been criticized by referring to our federal masked men as "ninja" ... Let us reflect upon the fact that a man who covers his face shows reason to be ashamed of what he is doing. A man who takes it upon himself to shed blood while concealing his identity is a revolting perversion of the warrior ethic. It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.

  Jeff Cooper

  Couple, Warrior, Gun

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• If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds

  Bill Moyers

  Equality, Thinking, Media Control

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