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• Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.

  Plutarch

  Fashion, Morning, Doors

  Plutarch (2011). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.528, Bantam

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• Don't be ashamed or embarrassed to dream big. You're living your life with hope, that's a powerful thing.

  Kara Goucher

  Dream, Powerful, Live Your Life

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from May 15, 2013

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• Because they [Americans] want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place [Appalachia] that has come to represent poverty, even though poverty exists all over the country, and exists as much in urban areas as it does in rural, if not more.

  Silas House

  Country, Doe, Want

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• H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am no longer ashamed, because I do not identify with the government under which I live. Rather, I view it as a criminal organization that without provocation has chosen to make war on my just rights-not only mine, of course, but everyone's. Although this vile enterprise is my problem, because it robs and bullies me relentlessly and without mercy, it is not my responsibility: the nail is not the hammer.

  Robert Higgs

  War, Responsibility, Men

  Robert Higgs (2007). “Neither Liberty Nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government”, Independent Inst

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• I did not go to the Supreme Court on behalf of a class of women. I wasn't pursuing any legal remedy to my unwanted pregnancy. I did not go to the federal courts for relief. I went to Sarah Weddington asking her if she knew how I could obtain an abortion. She and Linda Coffey said they didn't know where to get one. They lied to me just like I lied to them. Sarah already had an abortion. She knew where to get one. Sarah and Linda were just looking for somebody, anybody, to further their own agenda. I was their willing dupe. For this, I will forever be ashamed.

  Norma McCorvey

  Pregnancy, Class, Abortion

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• Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

  Ernest Dimnet

  Reading, Mean, Names

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• There's always time. . .to own up to things you're ashamed of, to change them. There's always time to start. And I think the starting is the most important thing. It takes courage. It takes a lot more courage than any vain feat of arms, let me tell you. It takes a lifetime to become a fool, and only a moment to begin to become wise.

  Peter Danielson

  Wise, Courage, Thinking

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• My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Health, Emotional, Thinking

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.

  Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

  People, History, Humanity

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• We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Fighting, History, Wish

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• Don’t ever sell yourself short. Stand tall. Never be ashamed of who you are. You are beautiful, you are loved. You are needed. You are worth it. Promise me you won’t forget that. Promise me you won’t let your scars define who you are. Let your trials shape you. Let your victories humble you.

  Jennifer Nettles

  Beautiful, Humble, Promise

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• I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Being Real

  Song: Precious, Album: Esperanza, 2008

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• I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

  Ratan Tata

  Ideas, People, Done

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• This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.

  John Aubrey

  Queens, Home, Oxford

  John Aubrey (1962). “Brief lives”

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• I am ashamed of a human race that can continue to allow the sordid ambitions of politicized groups who genuinely feel that right is on their side, and can therefore instigate such atrocities in the name of their own sense of right and wrong.

  Ralph Steadman

  Ambition, Names, Race

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• I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

  Quentin Crisp

  Gay, Thinking, Done

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• We cannot get from anyone else the things we need to fill the endless terrible need, not to be dissolved, not to sink back into sand, heat, broom, air, thinnest air. And so we revolve around each other and our dreams collide. Look out the window in any weather. We are part of all that glamour, drama, change, and should not be ashamed.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Dream, Drama, Air

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• Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Sports, Sex, Media

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• Ours is the wild tumult of the unchained storm, the tumult of the army on the march, clashing its cymbals, rioting with excess of energy. Need we be ashamed of it?

  Liam O'Flaherty

  Army, Storm, Energy

  Liam O'Flaherty (1996). “The Letters of Liam O'Flaherty”, Irish Amer Book Company

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• I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall.

  Elle Macpherson

  People, Used, Shows

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• I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

  Chavela Vargas

  Men, Bed, Way

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• I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate.

  Walther Funk

  Taken, Fate, Dark

  "The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Random House, p. 85 (To Leon Goldensohn, April 14, 1946), 2010.

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• I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.

  Alice Bag

  Want, Proud, Ends

  "The Rumpus Interview With Alice Bag" by Niina Pollari, therumpus.net. May 25, 2012.

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• So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed - it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.

  George Monbiot

  Odds, Identity, World

  "Sick of this market-driven world? You should be" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2014.

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• Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.

  Pope Francis

  Touching, Suffering, Trying

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