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• My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

  Horatio Nelson

  Character, Names, Horatio

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Business, Keys

  "Less Than Artful Choices: Narcissistic Personality Disorder According to Donald Trump" by Maria Konnikova, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

  Peter Stone

  Humor, Men, Law

  Sherman Edwards, Peter Stone (1976). “1776: A Musical Play”, Penguin Group USA

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• It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

  Charles Kettering

  Life, Tattoo, Art

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• Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Veterans Day, Military

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Exercise, Iraq, House

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• I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

  Pierre Corneille

  Honor

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• It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

  Colin Powell

  People, Millions

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• A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

  Lucius Accius

  Men, Has Beens, Entitled

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• I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.

  Davy Crockett

  Country, Self, Ruins

  Davy Crockett (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...”

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• I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Thinking, Confusion

  "Carter: Iraq War is 'Unjust'". www.foxnews.com. July 30, 2005.

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• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Inspirational, Work, Patriotic

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

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• We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

  Horace

  Literature, Crime

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• Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

  Milton Berle

  Poverty, Inconvenient

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• At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

  F. L. Lucas

  Long, Grace, Lasts

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• New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Government, Boss

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• The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Usa, United States, Done

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• A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

  Sigmund Freud

  Peace, War, Violence

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Angela Richards (1971). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Usa, Political

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Civil Disobedience: Resistance to Civil Government”, p.8, The Floating Press

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• It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

  Pierre Corneille

  Punishment, Crime

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• His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough"(72).

  J. M. Coetzee

  Mind, Doe, Care

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Disgrace”, p.72, Random House

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• Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Faces, Common, Calm

  Song: The House You Live In, Album: Summertime Dream

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• It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Crush, Flower, Envy

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• To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wise, Wisdom, Brother

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• The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking.

  Anne Rice

  Morning, School, Gun

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Dec 21, 2012

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