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• "Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

  Brigid Brophy

  Compassion, People, Abuse

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• The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to the end that the mind and spirit of his children should never escape, Homo Sapiens has employed praise, ridicule, admonition, accusation, mutilation, and even torture to chain them to the culture pattern.

  Jules Henry

  Children, Freedom, Men

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• I - listen, racism - being a racist is the worst thing you can say about somebody. I mean, it is such a charged accusation. And I really think people should be very careful before they level that.

  Megyn Kelly

  Mean, Thinking, Racism

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• Look, this debate is basic: it's small government vs. big government. So how cowardly do folks like Blood and Frank Rich have to be that they can't man up and defend their love for collectivism? The only reason they scream race, is because that debate scares them. They know a racial accusation prevents dialogue, because such a harmful charge far outweighs any benefits of winning an argument.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Men, Winning, Blood

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• What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.

  Steven Levitan

  Creative, Community, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.

  Clive Barker

  Selling, Selling Out

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.

  James Fenton

  Might, Common, Form

  "Negative images" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.

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• Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

  Gary Bauer

  Wicked, News, Republican

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• 'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.

  P. Chidambaram

  India, Gone, Phrases

  "Commanding Heights" Interview, www.pbs.org. February 06, 2001.

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• Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Racism, Damage, Causes

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• Accusations are useless.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Useless

  "Sarkozy’s “Worst Nightmare”: An Interview With Dominique de Villepin". Interview with Alexandre Devecchio, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people - mothers, children, babies, civilians - lost their lives as a result of the blatantly callous and unnecessary policies enacted by the leaders of the federal government of Nigeria. It's this charge that's dominated the book's Nigerian press, so far as I can see, the accusation, on the one hand, that Awolowo hatched "a diabolical policy to reduce the numbers of his enemies significantly through starvation - eliminating over two million people, mainly members of future generations.

  Chinua Achebe

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.

  Alfred Adler

  Self, Indulge In, Example

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• It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Would Be, Pieces

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter XV: "We Arrive At The Real Question", 1929.

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• Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

  William Butler Yeats

  Pieces, Literature, Becoming

  William Butler Yeats (2017). “Ideas of Good and Evil”, p.79, Litres

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• Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Envy, Scare, Virtue

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1198, Library of Alexandria

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• ... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

  Joseph Heller

  Strong, People, Madness

  Joseph Heller (1997). “God Knows”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• We all have to accept accusations that we ignored the refugee crisis for far too long. The first time that I referred to the Mediterranean Sea as Europe's cemetery was in October 2013, when hundreds of people drowned off Lampedusa. Italians, Maltese, Greeks and Spaniards have been pleading for help for years. But nobody cared.

  Martin Schulz

  Refugee Crisis, Years, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.

  Anais Nin

  Trials, Scene, Court

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• The candidates unleashing heated words about race, bigotry, and intolerance. Donald Trump chasing the minority vote and hurling a blistering accusation at his opponent.

  Martha Raddatz

  Race, Minorities, Opponents

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Years, Littles, Privilege

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ's sake.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Lying, Ornaments

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• The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.

  Frances Perkins

  Women

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• It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was 'found' guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a 'true bill'.

  Edward Jenks

  Men, May, Bills

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• I find this accusation so horrendous, so monstrous, that I have decided to confront it head-on by talking to the press. I am frustrated and angry. I believe that I am absolutely, 100 per cent innocent. I assure you: I have never taken drugs.

  Martina Hingis

  Believe, Taken, Talking

  "Hingis tests positive for cocaine", www.cnn.com. November 2, 2007.

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