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• A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

  Thomas Fuller

  Lying, Wings, Gossip

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• The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

  Seymour Papert

  Teaching, Discovery, Benefits

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• Longevity conquers scandal every time.

  Shelby Foote

  Time, Conquer, Longevity

  Shelby Foote (1992). “Jordan County: A Landscape in Narrative”, Vintage

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• Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Focus, Risk

  "Pope Francis on gay marriage, unmarried mothers ... and journalists". www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2013.

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• The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.

  Sydney Smith

  Mistake, Writing, Dinner

  Sydney Smith (1848). “The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith: Three Volumes Complete in One”, p.343

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• Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!

  Marquis de Sade

  Heart, Unique, Smoking

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• There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Morality, Sin

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• Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

  Cassandra Clare

  May, Sides, Reputation

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• Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring)

  Lisa Kleypas

  Kindness, Spring, Numbers

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Scandal in Spring”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Camouflage, Narrative

  "Cubes! The Horror!". nymag.com. April 1, 2012.

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• So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients to satiate as well as disguise itself. But if these smoother weapons cut so sore, what shall we say of open and unblushing scandal, subjected to no caution, tied down to no restraints?

  Laurence Sterne

  Cutting, Weapons, Slander

  Laurence Sterne (1810). “The Beauties of Sterne: Containing All His Pathetic Tales, His Humorous Descriptions, His Most Distinguished Observations on Life, and a Copious Selection from His Sermons ...”, p.241

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• Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

  Octave Feuillet

  Indulge In, Gossip, Rumor

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• We're in a strange state in our world where we sort of have that belief - and I have it too - that if it's written down there's got to be some truth in it. We haven't quite got to the spot where you go: "Well, it doesn't necessarily mean it's true." It could actually be completely made up and made to look very nice. So, we have to get to the point where scandal and those kinds of things are less and less important because otherwise we won't have anyone willing to run as politicians.

  George Clooney

  Running, Nice, Mean

  "The Ides of March - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Scandals never stop an administration unless the media wants them to stop an administration, which means that no scandal is ever gonna stop Obama.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Media, Want

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• Any truth creates a scandal.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Truth

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar

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• If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century.

  Bruno Le Maire

  Century, Famine, Ifs

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• If men pride themselves on the fact that Jesus Christ was born of their sex, the answer is that this was necessary for the sake of decency, for if he had been a woman, it would have been impossible for Jesus to go out at all hours of the day and the night and mingle with the crowds to convert them and to help and save mankind, without creating a scandal.

  Marie de Gournay

  Jesus, Sex, Pride

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• The plea agreement negotiated by Janet Reno's Justice Department with Nora, Gene and Trisha Lum is a hoax. It allows two key players in the campaign finance scandal to plead to lesser offenses and effectively concludes a serious investigation that, if taken to a conclusion, could have seriously affected the Clinton Administration's claim that it committed no illegalities in the campaign finance scandal. Nora Lum was a close confidant of Ron Brown and remains close to John Huang. Trisha Lum, her daughter, worked for Brown at the Commerce Department and worked on trade missions.

  Larry Klayman

  Daughter, Taken, Player

  "Two Democratic Fund-Raisers Charged In Campaign Money Probe" by Terry Freiden, www.cnn.com. May 21, 1997.

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• And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

  Rachel Field

  Way, Catching Up, Disregard

  Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

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• I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn't a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should.

  Timothy Hutton

  Girlfriend, People, Guy

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• The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Perseverance, Prayer, Mind

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• Big scandal on the new 'Survivor' series. The white, the black and the Hispanic teams were caught cheating off the Asian team.

  Jay Leno

  Cheating, Team, White

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• Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

  A.C. Grayling

  Children, Abuse, Religion

  A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books

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• Matt Drudge's role in the Monica Lewinski scandal] strikes me as a new and graphic power of the Internet to influence mainstream journalism. And I suspect that over the next couple of years that impact will grow to the point where it will damage journalism's ability to do its job professionally, to check out information before publication, to be mindful of the necessity to publish and broadcast reliable, substantiated information.

  Marvin Kalb

  Jobs, Couple, Impact

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• We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

  Elyn Saks

  Motivation, Inspiration, Jail

  "A tale of mental illness — from the inside". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June, 2012.

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