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• I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pride, Sake, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi, K. Swaminathan (1988). “A Gandhi Reader”, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division

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• Maybe we should be directing our anger elsewhere - like toward Wall Street. Why is it we never think of Big Business when we think of welfare recipients? Companies take more of our tax dollars, and in much more questionable ways, than do those who are trying to heat their apartments with a kerosene stove.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, Business, Thinking

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• I think that when you're playing someone who does really questionable or even really terrible things in a movie, it's important to show where that person is coming from. They're doing it from a necessary impulse. There is a struggle that's going on within them as a human.

  Dane DeHaan

  Struggle, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We found that we didn't have much problem with him [J.C.], it was his followers we found questionable.

  Graham Chapman

  Followers, Problem, Found

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• Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish.

  John Stuart Mill

  Destiny, Class, Numbers

  John Stuart Mill (1849). “Principles of political economy, with some of their applications to social philosophy”, p.314

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• I much prefer following a lead character that is doing morally questionable things. How much do you get on board? Do like that? Do you hate it? Does it matter?

  Christian Cooke

  Hate, Character, Does It Matter

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.

  Deniz Gamze Erguven

  People, Purity, Missions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• High personal standards aren't enough for organizational excellence. You've got to be intolerant of low standards in others. . . . If you accommodate questionable practices in others who touch your organization, you risk soiling its reputation. Anybody whose hands aren't clean can get the place dirty.

  Price Pritchett

  Dirty, Hands, Practice

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• The concept of God as a loving, all-powerful person, who created us, who has a plan for us, who issues commandments, and who is ready to receive us into Heaven, is a substantial concept, rich in meaning and significance for human life. But if we take away all this, and leave only the idea of an original cause, it is questionable whether the same word should even be used. By keeping the original word, we delude ourselves into thinking that we are talking about the same thing.

  James Rachels

  Powerful, Thinking, Ideas

  James Rachels (1990). “Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.

  Geoff Rickly

  Years, Absurd, Know How

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• It's very rare in our lives that we're like "Ooh, I'm going to really screw this family up." You just don't. You work from a place of need, like I want to finish this movie or I want to feel loved at that moment or I need empathy right now. And then, you do things that are questionable.

  Ry Russo-Young

  Empathy, Needs, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form... If even a minimal confidence in photography does not survive, it is questionable whether many pictures will have meaning anymore, not only as symbols but as evidence.

  Fred Ritchin

  Photography, Profound, Doe

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• As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.

  Jill Sobule

  Loner, Melancholy, Sexuality

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everything was so designed by Hannibal to break down Will in the first season, until Will's sanity became questionable. It's so much easier to believe that somebody losing their mind is capable of terrible things than it is to consider Frasier Crane, a charming, fun doctor who invites you to dinner. If you put those two in a police lineup, you're going to pick the guy who's melting down.

  Bryan Fuller

  Fun, Believe, Two

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The harpsichord was actually ideologically considered a very questionable instrument in that period, much like I think it's ideologically considered suspect today in some circles.

  Mahan Esfahani

  Thinking, Circles, Today

  "How To Annoy Your Dad: Play The Harpsichord". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to stop', but to move through life untouched by the loss of hopes, beliefs and aspirations once cherished is also questionable.

  George Pattison

  Teenage, Moving, Loss

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I would include non-medical sex selection as one of those practices that I think is morally questionable and that can carry adverse social consequences.

  Michael Sandel

  Sex, Thinking, Practice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can’t always tell the difference.

  Jeff Atwood

  Pain, Exercise, Differences

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• I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if I win. I would also reserve my right to contest or file a legal challenge in the case of a questionable result.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Presidential, Challenges

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!

  Unknown

  Bible, God, Education

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Sheep, Years

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• Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

  Benito Mussolini

  Inspirational, Funny, Sheep

  "ITALY: Duce (1922-43)". content.time.com. August 2, 1943.

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• Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Brother, Cutting

  "Man's Place in the Animal World" (ca. 1896)

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• I am for wine and the embrace of questionable women.

  Gannicus

  Wine, Embrace

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• The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Accessories, Gadgets

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