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• One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  America, Evil, House

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• We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.

  Pope Francis

  People, Suffering, Doe

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• It`s all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government continues in office, this will continue.

  Stephen Harper

  Responsibility, Government, Office

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• Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Long Ago, Should Have, Dying

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• There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Honesty, Men

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• Unlike scandal-monger Ed Klein’s fantastical No. 1 best-selling narrative about the supposed Blood Feud between the Clintons and the Obamas, Halper’s study is juicy and gossipy, yet scrupulously researched, drawing on numerous on-the-record conversations (as well as many not-for-attribution interviews) with prominent Democrats and Clinton insiders, past and present.

  Lloyd Grove

  Past, Blood, Drawing

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• A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

  Roger L'Estrange

  Two, Applause, Thirds

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• Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.

  Livy

  Moving

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• The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.

  Marlene Dumas

  Class, Crowds, Doe

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• How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Beautiful, Nature, Tree

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Scum Of The Earth, Needs

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• People like scandals.

  Blanka Vlasic

  People

  "Blanka Vlasic mixes mischief with medals as she aims for clean sweep". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2010.

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• I want a church I can stay in for years. I don't want surprises, scandals, or secrets from my church leaders.

  Ted Haggard

  Years, Leader, Secret

  Ted Haggard (2008). “Dog Training, Fly Fishing, and Sharing Christ in the 21st Century: Empowering Your Church to Build Community Through Shared Interests”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?

  Arundhati Roy

  Army, America, People

  "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.commondreams.org. May 20, 2004.

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• There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

  George Farquhar

  Justice, Rags, Poverty

  'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 1, sc. 1

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• The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

  Adam Gopnik

  Brutality, Moral, Prison

  "The Caging of America" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 30, 2012.

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• I regard the amount of brainpower going into money management as a national scandal. When some idiot would get rich, they'd say, 'Well, old Charlie was out in the field playing the big brass tuba on the day it rained gold.' A lot of people have become rich lately who were playing the tuba on the day it rained gold.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Gold, Tubas

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• Money you haven't earned is not good for you.

  Robert Maxwell

  Corruption, Havens

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• If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.

  Robert Maxwell

  Believe, Scotch, Long

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• If only 50 or more people were doing for the country what I have been doing, there would not be a pay freeze or a balance of payments problem.

  Robert Maxwell

  Country, People, Balance

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• Following revelations that he fathered a love child, the good Reverend Jesse Jackson - or should we say the 'very' good Reverend - is enduring the scandal with the help of family and friends. A scandal which gives clearer meaning to the Rainbow Coalition's Operation 'Push'.

  Jon Stewart

  Children, Giving, Rainbow

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• The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.

  Philip Yancey

  Pain, Grace, Problem

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.61, Harper Collins

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• A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.

  Paul Fussell

  Travel, Book, Romance

  Paul Fussell (1982). “Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars”, p.203, Oxford University Press

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• Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.

  John Clute

  Writing, Views, Innovation

  "In defense of science fiction" by John Clute, www.cnn.com. May 26, 1999.

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• I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Novelty, Charm

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.128, Oxford University Press on Demand

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