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• He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.

  John of the Cross

  Love Is, Men, Doe

  Saint John of the Cross (2007). “The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, Volume II: The Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ, the LIV”, p.341, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our relationship with food - how, when, what and why we eat - is a direct expression of our underlying feelings, thoughts and beliefs about ourselves. It has to do with stances we take that get reflected not only in our relationship with food, but in all our relationships. It just so happens that the relationship with food causes enough conflict, grief, shame and hurt that we’re willing to look at it.

  Geneen Roth

  Hurt, Grief, Food

  "Geneen Roth on Dr. Oz, Food and Body Image". Interview with Jean Fain, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2012.

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• Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.

  Aleister Crowley

  Aversion, Sickness, Failing

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity.

  Lee Salk

  Attitude, Children, Parent

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• Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand circle amid the rest of the planets in an annual revolution around the sun. Near the sun is the center of the universe. Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Moon, Circles, Earth

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”

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• The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the men who are their dads and stepdads; less shame for our sons who will become men; and, for our daughters, a deeper understanding of men's desire to please that leaves them feeling their willingness to please is not unrequited but returned - allowing our daughters to feel less lonely and more loved. If we earn more and love less, we pay for a home in which we do not live.

  Warren Farrell

  Daughter, Lonely, Children

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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• I suppose Phil Collins offers something for everybody, and in hipdom that's not cool. But in the real world, there's no shame in that at all.

  Phil Collins

  Real, World, Offers

  Quoted in Guinness Rockopedia (1998).

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• Everybody's having fun, except me I'm the lonely one I live in shame.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Lonely, Fun, Having Fun

  Song: Goodbye to Romance

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• I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Daughter, Mourn, Ifs

  1982 Destination Biafra.

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• Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Finals, World, Want

  "Gerrard Sounds Clarion Call". www.theguardian.com. October 05, 2005.

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• "What is normal?" really becomes the question. What is normal, and how are we fooled into thinking it's something other than what we're doing at any given time. Every family has either a drug addict or an alcoholic or some sort of dysfunction that the family is dealing with. And I think the grace of this family is that they actually could be that far out there but also be forgiving, and be really human, and be human in front of each other without much shame.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Thinking, Dysfunction, Drug

  "Mark Ruffalo and Maya Forbes on How YouTube and Wes Anderson Helped Shape Infinitely Polar Bear". Interview with Richard Lawson, www.vanityfair.com. June 19, 2015.

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• I believe that we are a story-driven species and that we understand how things are put together, in the context of narrative. It's a shame that science hasn't been taught that way, in a long time. It's usually the fact completely devoid of any human experience or any idea of how the scientist came to that conclusion.

  Ann Druyan

  Believe, Ideas, Long

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson and Executive Producer Ann Druyan Talk COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY, Public Appetite for Science, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 17, 2014.

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• In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Reality, Men, Names

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Huts

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, p.9, Random House

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• It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Facts, Nonsense, Substitutes

  "Real Time with Bill Maher", February 08, 2013.

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• There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.

  Boyle Roche

  Sin, Decree, Occasions

  c.1800 Debate on theAct of Union between Great Britain and Ireland, IrishHouse of Commons, quotedin SirJonahBarrington Personal Sketches and Recollections of his ownTimes (1827).

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• It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game.

  Roger Zelazny

  Games, Giving, Mythical Creatures

  Roger Zelazny (1983). “Unicorn Variations”, Pocket Books

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• Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Pride, Talent, Finesse

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.41, Random House

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• In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Animal, Humanity, Poison

  Olaf Stapledon (1972). “Last and first men, and Last men in London”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.

  Kano Jigoro

  Ignorant, May, Moments

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• The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.

  Isak Dinesen

  Grieving, People, House

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• We have our share of accidents at nap time. However, the one thing we never do is shame the child, or use blaming words.

  Jean Parker

  Children, Naps, Use

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• Made up of corallitic accretions and painful increments, lit on rare occasions by bolts of revelation, and then stuffed behind the wainscotting to grope in the mouse-turd dust, art is the equivalent of athlete's foot, at best an exquisite itch, at worst an excuse to stop walking. On the emotional side, it is either masturbation with a hockey glove or a night beneath the sliding moon that shames Eros.

  Harold Town

  Art, Athlete, Hockey

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• Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, false, shameful, disgraceful passions; that my confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas! woe, woe! O me, how long?

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Passion, Long, Confusion

  Lancelot Andrewes (bp. of Winchester.) (1883). “The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes”

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• It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.

  Fred Rodell

  Running, Mistake, Men

  Fred Rodell (1986). “55 Men, Story of Constitution”, p.22, Stackpole Books

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