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• In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

  John Major

  Running, Block, Community

  "Major goes back to the old values" by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.

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• People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Thinking, Clothes, People

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• I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Thinking, Needs

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• It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, Thinking, Our World

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• Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

  Moliere

  Fashion, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.248, Penguin

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• What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Limits, Belief

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• It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Mad Cow Disease, Evil

  "Is Science a Religion?". Humanist, www.skeptical-science.com. January/February 1997.

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• If people want to change, they will. If they don't want to, it's hard to make them do so. The current interest in the environment is a good thing. The best way to make a contribution in fashion is to promote the idea that a fundamental interest in preserving the environment is itself fashionable.

  Giorgio Armani

  Change, Fashion, Ideas

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• In today's world, when many of yesterday's fashionable habits are today's misdemeanors, we should rejoice that a chocolate dessert can bring so much innocent pleasure.

  Marcel Desaulniers

  Food, Yesterday, Chocolate

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• Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.

  Mother Teresa

  Women, History, Today

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

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• He...boasted an unassuming mustache, which was perched atop his upper lip cautiously, as though it were slightly embarrassed to be there and would like to slide away and become a sideburn or something more fashionable.

  Gail Carriger

  Mustache, Slides, Lips

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• Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hips, Sophisticated, Made

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• I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

  Dolly Parton

  Lows, Stoops

  "Dolly Parton’s Style Evolution: Or Why This Country Singer Is A Natural!" By Anya Strzemien, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

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• It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek to correct it. If indeed the Bible is the Word of God, nothing could be more arrogant. It is God who corrects us; we don’t correct Him. We do not stand over God but under Him.

  R. C. Sproul

  Exercise, Circles, Criticism

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• I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

  Philippa Gregory

  Sweet, Dark, Men

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay.

  Antonio Banderas

  Couple, Years, Hollywood

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• Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.

  Edwin Newman

  Television Commercials, Sound, Accents

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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• It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.

  Mark Zandi

  Fate, Reality, Government

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• Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today is that the libertarian socialist core will be eroded by fashionable, post- modernist, spiritualist, mystic individualism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Views, Wings, Libertarian

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• When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him.

  Joseph Addison

  Lying, Fall, Science

  Joseph Addison (1827). “A Selection [- Second Selection] from the Paper of Addison: In the Spectator and Guardian, for the Use of Young Persons”, p.236

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• There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable.

  Paul Theroux

  Men, Ideas, Way

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.374, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be determined by outside factors-a new car, fashionable clothes, a prestigious career, social status-the more we relinquish control over our own happiness.

  Paul Brand

  Careers, Clothes, Expectations

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• When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Google, Trying, Looks

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• It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.

  Colum McCann

  Mother, Brother, Wind

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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