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• When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exulted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the highest virtues.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Years, Two, Quality

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Have you noticed that they put advertisements in with your bills now? Like bills aren't distasteful enough, they have to stuff junk mail in there with them. I get back at them. I put garbage in with my check when I mail it in. Coffee grinds, banana peels...I write, "Could you throw this away for me?"

  Andy Rooney

  Coffee, Writing, Junk

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• Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.

  Moby

  Criminals, Enough, Justification

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• As a collegiate, I think you spend 50 percent of your time recruiting. It is a distasteful process.

  Marv Levy

  Thinking, Process, Percent

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. December 24, 2004.

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• A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.

  Margaret Benson

  Nice, Cat, Meat

  Margaret Benson (1901). “The soul of a cat: and other stories”

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• Reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace.

  Hillary Clinton

  Sound, Would Be, Easy

  "Taliban talks could be closer" by Jonathan Steele, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2011.

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• I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Suffering, Disappear, Command

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.121, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

  Michael Crichton

  Doctors, Entrepreneur, Patient

  Michael Crichton (1970). “Five Patients: The Hospital Explained”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

  Tim Gunn

  Conspicuous Consumption, Consumption

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• There are some who possess the magic touch, the infectious spirit of enthusiasm; who have the same effect as a beautiful morning that never reaches noon. Under this spell one's mind is braced, one's spirit recreated; one is ready for any adventure, even if it only be the doing of the next distasteful task light-heartedly.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Beautiful, Encouragement, Morning

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• Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.

  Jeremy Collier

  Singularity, Contrary

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• The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree. But the Tempter cannot master a man who dwells on the distasteful side of things, self-controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, resolute and full of faith, like the wind cannot move a mountain crag.

  Gautama Buddha

  Faith, Buddhist, Moving

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• Have you found your life distasteful?
  My life did, and does, smack sweet.
  Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
  Mine I saved and hold complete.
  Do your joys with age diminish?
  When mine fail me, I'll complain.
  Must in death your daylight finish?
  My sun sets to rise again.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Sweet, Failure

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.42

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• No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Powerful, Science, Acceptance

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• The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many persons. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians.

  Charles Darwin

  Regret, Science, Men

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.525, OUP Oxford

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• Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

  C. S. Lewis

  Nice, Smart, Stupid

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• Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd

  Mark Rippetoe

  Bodybuilding, Men, Vanity

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• Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.

  Charles Lamb

  Marriage, Wedding, Couple

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.79

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• There should be no distasteful tasks in one's life. If you just hate to do a thing, that hatred for it develops body-destructive toxins, and you become fatigued very soon.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Hate, Hatred

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• With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could be in favour of a ban in my constituency, but I would not regard that as conclusive, and I hope that we never would. If we start having opinion polls about all the unpleasant and distasteful habits and customs of some members of society, and suggesting that their findings should be made part of the criminal law, foxhunting would come way down the list, and quite a lot of strange enactments would have to go through the House.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Hunting, Law, House

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• Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us personally. Some children will make poor choices just as some adults do in smoking and drinking to excess; this is part of life. When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.

  Mary Ruwart

  Children, Drinking, Decision

  "Short answers to the tough questions". Book by Mary Ruwart, content.time.com. 1998.

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• What's that smell?" I froze. What? Did I really smell so distasteful he had only to lean in my direction to catch a putrid whiff of me? I stayed the urge to break his freaking nose for pointing out my stinkiness. He sniffed again. "I can't place it." "How bad is it?" I asked, my cheeks heating. "It's good. Some kind of flower." My first thought: Hurray! I don't stink. My second: Ohmygod!

  Gena Showalter

  Flower, Smell, Noses

  Gena Showalter (2012). “Animal Instincts”, p.66, Harlequin

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• But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Weak, Convalescence, Refuse

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.553, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Latin, Historical, Greek

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• Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it.

  Albert J. Nock

  People, Effort, Publicity

  "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man". Book by Albert J. Nock, 1943.

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