"We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Shame, Truth, Humanity, Privacy

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"We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough."

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"Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck."

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"There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with, or, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman."

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"Some men would not still be HIV negative or alive, if they had managed to sleep with some of the women with whom they want or wanted to have sex."

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"One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex."

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"The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively."

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"Not everything happens for a reason, we claim that it does for a reason: to console ourselves."

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"O shame! Where is they blush?"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

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"Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself."

Damon Wayans, American Comedian

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"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"I can see your dirtypillows."

Stephen King, American Author

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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, American Author

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"You can cry, ain't no shame in it."

Will Smith, American Actor

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"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."

Joni Mitchell, Canadian Musician

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"That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move."

Robbie Coltrane, Scottish Actor

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"One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush."

Marquis de Sade, French Novelist

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"Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck."

"There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with, or, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman."

"Some men would not still be HIV negative or alive, if they had managed to sleep with some of the women with whom they want or wanted to have sex."

"One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex."

"Some men do not know the father of 'their' children."

"Some people aren't really light-teethed, they're merely dark-skinned."

"We seldom look up to the person, we usually look up to their persona."

"The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively."

"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."

"Not everything happens for a reason, we claim that it does for a reason: to console ourselves."

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"O shame! Where is they blush?"

"Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value."

"Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself."

"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."

"I can see your dirtypillows."

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

"You can cry, ain't no shame in it."

"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."

"That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move."

"One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush."