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• I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Growing Up, Real

  John Taylor Gatto (2000). “A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling”

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• I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

  Charles Bukowski

  Race, Add, Want

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.48, City Lights Books

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• Women will not be free
  until we can speak our minds and our hearts
  without having to worry that men will crucify us,
  women will crucify us,
  the press will crucify us,
  or our children will be ashamed...
  Women are still in emotional bondage
  as long as we feel we have to make
  a choice between being heard
  and being loved.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Heart, Men

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• Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow realizes of the botany of the plants which it eats with pleasure.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Engineering, Use

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• We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

  Albert Camus

  Blood, Color, Smell

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.189, Vintage

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• Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Drinking, Water, Should

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• Never be ashamed of passion. If you are strongly sexed, you are richly endowed.

  Margaret Sanger

  Passion, Ifs

  Margaret Sanger (2013). “Happiness in Marriage”, p.21, Elsevier

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• We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.

  Tommy Douglas

  Dream, People, Vision

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• Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

  Milarepa

  Life Is Short, Evil, Meditation

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• And what have we now in Germany? A land of bankers and car-makers. Even our great army has gone soft. Soldiers wear beards and question orders. I am not ashamed to say I believed in National Socialism. I still wear the Iron Cross with diamonds Hitler gave me. But today in all Germany you can't find a single person who voted Adolf Hitler into power. Many Germans feel guilty about the war. But they don't explain the real guilt we share - That we lost.

  Hanna Reitsch

  Real, War, Army

  "The first astronaut: tiny, daring Hanna" by Ron Laytner in The Deseret News (pp. C1+, 12C), February 19, 1981.

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• I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss willingly and that our fall is cushioned by faith--faith that at the bottom we will be caught and taught and turned toward the light. I pray that we don't waste precious energy feeling ashamed of our mistakes, or embarrassed by our flaws. After years of teaching, I know only a few things for sure. One of them is this: We are chunks of dense matter that need to be cracked open. Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mistake, Teaching, Fall

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• Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love.

  Charles Stanley

  Jesus, Broken, Waiting

  Charles F. Stanley (2001). “A Gift of Love: Reflections for the Tender Heart”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• It's not a problem that we're sinners; it's a problem that we aren't ashamed of our sin and don't seek forgiveness.

  Pope Francis

  Problem, Sin, Sinner

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• The words we use for the Creator are a reflect of ourselves. If we think of God as fear and shame, we are scared and have something to be ashamed of ... But if we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Kindness, Thinking, Compassion

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• I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is only a widely practised dilettantism, the chemists are ashamed to call themselves chemists because the pharmacists, who are despised, have assumed this name.

  Justus von Liebig

  Learning, Science, Land

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• Thank you ... San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you ... for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Humor, San Francisco

  "Daniel Tosh: Happy Thoughts". www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• No one should ever be ashamed of going to meetings. It's healthy, it's therapeutic and it's the right way to live.

  Naomi Campbell

  Baby, Boys, Healthy

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• If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, May

  Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940”, William Heinemann

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• Once upon a time our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt that we are at war? - was victory. Once upon a time we were proud of our strength, our military power. Now we seem ashamed of it. Once upon a time the rest of the world looked to us for leadership. Now they look to us for a quick handout and a fence-straddling international posture.

  Barry Goldwater

  War, Military, Goal

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• I feel ashamed tonight that we treated Lennox Lewis the way we did because he gave it all his effort but everytime Don King's involved, you can expect a draw to come from somewhere. Ask Pernell Whitaker about the Julio Cesar Chavez fight...I thought Evander Holyfield gave a very game effort, but you win some and you lose some...tonight I'm upset because Lennox Lewis did not lose and it was not a draw. It's as simple as that.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Kings, Motivation, Fighting

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• In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, America, Sublime

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.452

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• I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.

  Drew Barrymore

  Mistake, Life Lesson, Past

  "Drew Barrymore: People should shut up about my wild past, I’m proud of it". London Evening Standard Interview, www.standard.co.uk. August 24, 2010.

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• If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If he lives with hostility, he learn s to fight. If a child lives with shame, he learn to fell ashamed.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Children, Self Esteem, Fighting

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• Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Needs, Shame, Feels

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• When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

  Barbara Amiel

  Vortex, Speech, Recycling

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