#sham

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Ralph Peters

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The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it. ↗

— John Owen

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I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress. ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame. ↗

— Jane Pauley

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A lot of women feel ashamed to be weak. ↗

— Rosie Perez

#feel #lot #weak #women

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. ↗

— Phaedrus

#believed #detected #even #ever #ever after

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#affairs #alone #casual #detests #enough

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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