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

Shame, Blame, Behavior, Self

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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."

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"Shame is a child of custom rather than of nature."

Will Durant, American Historian

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"It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from."

Mark Lawrence, British Novelist

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

Joni Mitchell, Canadian Musician

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"She had wanted me to hold rape inside me like a dark pearl, keep it in there, as it grew, as I grew cramped, as it overtook me as hidden things do. Secrets become lies. I'd carried in every step I took this lie, the shame of it."

Aspen Matis, American Author

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"Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame."

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"Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame."

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