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• Experts are saying that President Bush's goal now is to politically humiliate Saddam Hussein. Why don't we just make him the next Democratic presidential nominee?

  Jay Leno

  Goal, Presidential, Next

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• Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the one that suits temperaments like mine. The fictions of my imagination (as it later developed) may weary me, but they don't hurt or humiliate. Impossible lovers can't cheat on us, or smile at us falsely, or be calculating in their caresses. They never forsake us, and they don't die or disappear. --The book of Disquiet

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hurt, Book, Imagination

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.155, Penguin UK

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• Sighing, she gave a brief nod. “I was supposed to win. I was supposed to finish you off. They never counted on you winning. And then you didn’t kill me. It was awful.” “You’re welcome,” I said, feeling fresh anger ignite. “I’ll try not to humiliate you by letting you live next time.” (Max II to Max)

  James Patterson

  Winning, Feelings, Trying

  James Patterson (2007). “Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports: A Maximum Ride Novel”, p.194, Hachette UK

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• When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Costumes, Bees, Ridiculous

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• ...here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. (This doesn't mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart - every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.)

  C. S. Lewis

  Bullying, Cheating, Hurt

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• I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

  Janet Fitch

  Senior, Teacher, Writing

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• Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Hatred, Oleanders, Cradle

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• Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him.

  Saddam Hussein

  Decision, Enemy

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• But you're better than I am, Katsa. And it doesn't humiliate me. It humbles me. But it doesn't humiliate me.

  Kristin Cashore

  Katsa

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Military, Vietnam, United States

  Address to the Nation on theWar in Vietnam, 3 Nov. 1969

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• There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Identity, Way, Feels

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• To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Sorry, Humility, Pride

  Interview with Torsten Manns, as quoted in Stig Bjoerkman, Torsten Manns and Jonas Sima "Bergman on Bergman: Interviews with Ingmar Bergman" translated by Paul Britten Austin, 1973.

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• And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Light, World, Resistance

  Pier Paolo Pasolini, Norman MacAfee, Luciano Martinengo (1982). “Poems”, New York : Random House

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• I know, I know. But I can always kill him later. This way, at least we get to humiliate him first.” Finn eyed me. “Sometimes I think you’re even more devious, twisted, and vicious than I am.” I grinned. “You only wish you could be as ruthless as me.” “Absolutely.

  Jennifer Estep

  Thinking, Wish, Way

  Jennifer Estep (2013). “Deadly Sting”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.

  Nick Dear

  Hate, Lying, Skills

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• In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes it pleased Thee to let me feel the heavy hand of Thy displeasure and to humiliate my proud heart by manifold castigations. Sickness and misfortune didst Thou send upon me to turn my thoughts to my errantries.-One thing, only, O Father, do I ask: cease not to labor for my betterment. In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to Thee and become fruitful in good works.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Father, Mean, Heart

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• I didn't humiliate him by pointing it out because that's not how you treat friends. You don't judge them. You don't humiliate them. I bet he's been judging me all along.

  Jay Asher

  Judging, Judge Me, Treats

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.

  John Lennon

  Music, People, Want

  Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.105, Verso

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• I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me! Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to God alone―if He existed!

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Sunshine, Men

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Sports, Men, Feminist

  "Feminists Still on the Warpath to Get Their Man". humanevents.com. February 15, 2005.

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• At the moment I'm just swallowing it all as part of the humiliation but I think - and this is aimed at my dear manager - one shouldn't humiliate players for too long

  Jens Lehmann

  Player, Thinking, Long

  "No twinkle toes, no imagination as England dance to wrong tune" by Paul Weaver, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him. There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Mistake, Done

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. April 2001.

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• Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the evil. What is a body, anyway? I suppose you've got to abuse your body to understand it. If you're not prepared to humiliate yourself in order to give somebody else a moment's pleasure, I don't believe that you've actually lived.

  Ray Davies

  Believe, Order, People

  Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.214, The Overlook Press

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• You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

  Cesar Chavez

  Persons

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.129, Texas A&M University Press

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• I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Climate, Elements, Conclusion

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