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• What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Roots, Evil

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• You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other forms of ungodliness. Recognize your divine birthright as daughters of our Heavenly Father.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Daughter, Father, Faithful

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• The literature has become too vast to comprehend...It is...difficult to grasp even for workers in closely neighboring fields. ...There is much more reliance on word of mouth for the transmission of scientific data...gossip.

  Lewis Thomas

  Dark, Data, Age

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• Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

  Michael Korda

  Rivers, Water, Way

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• At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.

  Peter Stone

  Friends, Night, People

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• Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Examination, Incidents, Destructive

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• I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.

  Bernard Ingham

  Media, Mowing, Sometimes

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• Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

  Bernard Ingham

  Sports, Blood, Columns

  1986 Speech, 5 Feb.

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• having people talk about you is an indication of how much more exciting your life is than theirs.

  Jan Burke

  People, Life Is, Exciting

  Jan Burke (2002). “Sweet Dreams, Irene: An Irene Kelly Novel”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

  Vikram Seth

  People, Fiction, Want

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• If you remember the creation (gossip about such and such a person), then remember Allah the Most High. Remembering Him is the medicine for remembering His creation.

  Al-Fudhayl bin 'Iyyadh

  Wisdom, Islamic, Medicine

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• Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!

  Patsy Kelly

  Beats, Fronts

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• We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

  Jean Rostand

  People, Envy, Criticism

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• Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.

  Douglas Hurd

  Silence, Sin, Filled

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• Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.

  Kin Hubbard

  Sweet, Risk, Vices

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• A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

  Eric Hoffer

  Running, Fall, Men

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• We live in a world, a medieval type of world, where someone can accuse you - through gossip and hearsay, and all of a sudden you're supposed to respond to specific charges from people you don't know, are not aware of who these people are, and you're supposed to respond to their specific allegations?

  Rand Paul

  People, World, Medieval

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Differences, People, News

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.321, Macmillan

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• In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

  Voltaire

  Order, Talking, Occupation

  Voltaire (1959). “Candide”

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• sometimes gossip is by far the most reliable source of information about yourself and all your friends, especially in Manhattan. I always say why trust myself when gossip can tell moi the real truth about moi?

  Plum Sykes

  Real, Manhattan, Information

  Plum Sykes (2007). “Bergdorf Blondes: A Novel”, Miramax Books

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• I'm such a bookworm, and I'm such a people-watcher. It took the Internet a while to catch on in Ireland, because the culture there is, you go to the pub and talk to people there, and that's how you get the news and all the gossip. You just do it face to face. And culturally, you just couldn't understand.

  Patton Oswalt

  People, Faces, Culture

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• what's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the same being over old, under done, and dry o' gravy.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Pie, News, Done

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.

  William Faulkner

  Opportunity, Names, Ideas

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Fog, Cynical, Church

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.387, Penguin

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• People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Character, Thinking, People

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