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• Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Humorous

  George W. Bush's remarks on teaching American history and civic education at East Literature Magnet School in Nashville, Tennessee, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 17, 2002.

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• At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Love, Hate, Generosity

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• Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.

  Joyce Meyer

  Attitude, Blame, Disrespectful

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• I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people's treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Believe, Suicidal, People

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• Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Lying, Character

  Alexander Pope (1823). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal Prayer, with Other Poems”, p.33

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• Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

  Aristotle

  Ornaments, Young, Disgrace

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". P. 702, 1922.

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• There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fear, Father, What Matters

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.784, Bantam

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• Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Heart, Men, Desire

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark T, p. 262, 1732.

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• It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Men, Honor, Desire

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• Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.

  Anne Lamott

  Good Friend, Doe, Helping

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.124, Penguin

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• Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not, 'How can we hide our wounds?' so we don't have to be embarrassed, but 'How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?' When our wounds cease to be a source of shame, and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers.

  Henri Nouwen

  Healing, People, Source

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• What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Men, Bottom, Being Afraid

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• From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

  John Updike

  Infancy Is, Secret, Spy

  "Bech: A Book". Book by John Updike, 1965.

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• There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Humorous

  "Political Gaffes to Spark Any Party". Interview with John Ydstie, www.npr.org. November 5, 2006.

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• Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife
  Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

  John Dryden

  Life, Sweet, Taught

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.458

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• Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.

  Dorothy Parker

  Horse, Woe, Wealth

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• Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, Sin, Repentance

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• Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.

  Suzanne Collins

  Strong, Catching Fire, Lifetime

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.178, Scholastic Inc.

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• When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

  Bill Cosby

  Girl, Boys, Get Away

  "Q&A: Bill Cosby Talks Family, Faith and Tim Tebow". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. December 15, 2011.

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• You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.

  Rumi

  Thinking, Air, Forever

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• Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.

  Jim Henson

  Anger, Heart, Sadness

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• I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

  Dick Gregory

  Hate, Home, School

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self Esteem, Fall, Levels

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.168, M-y books ltd

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• Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hurt, Pain, Believe

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Dec 06, 2016

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• If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.

  Homer

  Lost, Ifs

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