"You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors."
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"There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody."
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"A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame."
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"A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame."
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"Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself."
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"I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North."
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"What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast."
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"A European brewery has purchased Anheuser-Busch, the makers of Budweiser, for $52 billion. Which is a a shame because if they had waited until happy hour, they could have paid half that."
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"Nothing spells shame like living what feels like a double life."
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"Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody. There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody."
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"The only shame is to have none."
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"Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings."
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"Of all sweet passions Shame is the loveliest."
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"Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis."
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"Shame is pride's cloak."
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"Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it."
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"Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God."
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"When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do."
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"A dog has no shame. If he can do it, you can watch."
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"Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation."
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