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I think it's a real shame so many schools have taken out the hands-on classes. Art, music, auto mechanics, cooking, sewing, these… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
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I was on record before I did 'The Hobbit,' saying I don't care at all about 3D. And I suppose I should… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
Sometimes a poem starts because I feel the urge to write about something from which I carry a great deal of shame,… — Bao Phi Copy Share Image
The outsider hero is hero riding into town, he's the gunslinger, shame - the same thing, he didn't want to do it… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
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I think everyone has shame about something, whether it's a lack of a relationship with a child or maybe their weight or… — Chrissy Metz Copy Share Image
There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
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A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share Image
Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be… — Wilson Bentley Copy Share Image
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I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave… — Robert Purvis Copy Share Image
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The cuts look good in this messed up lie. That blood that trickles down my arm. People all stare at the girl… — Shane Rush Copy Share Image
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My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting… — Mary Manin Morrissey Copy Share Image
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