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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."
"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."
"I felt ashamed.""But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?""No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal.""But how could you help that?""Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?"
"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."
"Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame."
Explore more quotes by Will Durant
"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."
"We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries."
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