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• Trans kids are living in the future in a way. When I was growing up, "transgender" wasn't even a word. It wasn't used. Just the naming of something that's invisible, or was thought of as shameful or different - giving it a name that's not a slur is powerful. It's still a little hard to imagine what it might look like growing older as a trans man, but I think that's going to change for the next generation. For trans kids growing up, that visual bridge towards their future selves is starting to develop in conjunction with this trans media wave we're in.

  Rhys Ernst

  Growing Up, Powerful, Kids

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Betrayal, Pain, Lying

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• Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.

  Sebastian Junger

  Running, Children, Survival

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• So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Knowing, Prejudice

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• Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Song, Heart

  Dean Koontz (2004). “The Bad Place”, p.11, Penguin

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• No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beer, Names, Cider

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• In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

  Mary McCarthy

  Military, Politics, Retreat

  "Vietnam". Book by Mary McCarthy, 1967.

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• Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Country, Creating Life, Agents

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• I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.

  Nick Flynn

  Crazy, Writing, School

  "'Being Flynn': When Dad Needs To Take Shelter". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. February 29, 2012.

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• The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

  David Hackworth

  War, Taken, Racket

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• The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.

  Ralph Peters

  Revolt, Disgraceful

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• Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must regard their losses as lessons and learn from them what sorts of things to avoid in the future.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Attitude, Loss, Player

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• I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Thinking, Being Bullied, Bullied

  "Writers Reflect On Childhood Torment In 'Dear Bully'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 7, 2011.

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• We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Moving

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

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• I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Regret, Thinking, Well Known

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• I found myself compelled, like this weird, shameful compulsion to draw cute animals.

  Lynda Barry

  Cute, Animal, Found

  "Doodle Your Way Out Of Writer's Block". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 11, 2010.

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• What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

  Hippocrates

  Men, May, Spread

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• When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.

  John Green

  Like You, Unforgivable, Easier

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• Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down.

  George H. W. Bush

  Wall, Tumbling Down, Exclusion

  George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing was dirty. With Park. Nothing could be shameful. Because Park was the sun, and that was the only way Eleanor could think to explain it.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Dirty, Thinking, Way

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.227, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.

  Julie Burchill

  Covering, Behaviour, Stripping

  "Modesty be damned. If you've got it, you've got every right to flaunt it" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

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• The Libertarian Party is a shameful party

  Dennis Prager

  Party, Libertarian Party, Libertarian

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• This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Men, America, President

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• The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated by day and bewilderment by night by unbearable injustice, and burdened with the ugly weight of discrimination. Forced to live with these shameful conditions, we are tempted to become bitter and retaliate with a corresponding hate. But if this happens, the new order we seek will be little more than a duplicate of the old order. We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Humility, Night

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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