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• It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs, Class, President

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality

  Iris Marion Young

  Parenting, Motherhood, Borders

  Iris Marion Young (2005). “On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays”, p.88, Oxford University Press

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• An Internet rumor claims that John Kerry had an affair with a young woman. When asked if this was similar to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, a spokesman said 'Close, but no cigar.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Rumor, Internet, Cigar

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• CBS News on Tuesday had Bob Kerrey in a Vietnam scandal, Senator Bob Torricelli in a donor scandal and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a sex scandal. This confirms what we always knew. Bill Clinton does the work of three men.

  Argus Hamilton

  Sex, Men, Tuesday

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• A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don't start falling off. The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don't let up. If you're always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong. Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war.

  Bob Barr

  War, Fall, Approval Rating

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• We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.

  Pope Francis

  People, Suffering, Doe

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• I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to you in a place you didn't expect it to happen?" I wasn't interested in scandal, or outrageous moments. I was interested in the surprise of the intimate, or the surprise of the ordinary.

  Claudia Rankine

  People, Ordinary, Lots Of Friends

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If my novel gets any attention in Bulgaria, it will be as a scandal: a book about a teacher at a famous school and his relationship with a prostitute. I doubt very much it will be evaluated on its merits as literature. If Bulgarian were the book's only language, that would be painful and limiting to me as a writer. Since my book also exists in English - where it isn't scandalous at all - I feel comfortable with the possibility of scandal.

  Garth Greenwell

  Teacher, Book, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The French Revolution printed money because they didn't have any, so they just printed it, and this was a revolutionary step which of course we are still reaping the huge consequences of today. It struck me that this was beginning to happen...there had been scandals where shares had been printed.

  Marina Warner

  Today, Revolution, Steps

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Unlike scandal-monger Ed Klein’s fantastical No. 1 best-selling narrative about the supposed Blood Feud between the Clintons and the Obamas, Halper’s study is juicy and gossipy, yet scrupulously researched, drawing on numerous on-the-record conversations (as well as many not-for-attribution interviews) with prominent Democrats and Clinton insiders, past and present.

  Lloyd Grove

  Past, Blood, Drawing

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• My most recent project has been acting and dancing on VH1's TV series Hit the Floor. On the show, we perform at least one dance number an episode. They are all different themes and different dance styles and keep us literally on our toes. The show is exuberant, exciting, and full of scandal. Tune in and I know you'll get addicted.

  Allison Holker

  Numbers, Dancing, Style

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

  Kenneth Lay

  Law, Corruption, Break

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• There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes are often depicted as innocent victims ... The reality is that both parties conspire to defraud the public.

  Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey

  Party, Reality, Government

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• Money you haven't earned is not good for you.

  Robert Maxwell

  Corruption, Havens

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• If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.

  Robert Maxwell

  Believe, Scotch, Long

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• If only 50 or more people were doing for the country what I have been doing, there would not be a pay freeze or a balance of payments problem.

  Robert Maxwell

  Country, People, Balance

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• The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.

  Philip Yancey

  Pain, Grace, Problem

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.61, Harper Collins

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• I regard the amount of brainpower going into money management as a national scandal. When some idiot would get rich, they'd say, 'Well, old Charlie was out in the field playing the big brass tuba on the day it rained gold.' A lot of people have become rich lately who were playing the tuba on the day it rained gold.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Gold, Tubas

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• People like scandals.

  Blanka Vlasic

  People

  "Blanka Vlasic mixes mischief with medals as she aims for clean sweep". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2010.

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• We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Scum Of The Earth, Needs

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• Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling.

  Tom Brokaw

  Years, Life Is, Forty

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• The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to condemn it; and if they discover that it is true, they ought to thank those who have opened the way to finding the true sense of the Scriptures and who have prevented them from falling into the grave scandal of condemning a true proposition.

  Galileo Galilei

  Fall, Would Be, Way

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• Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Gossip, People, Giving

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.60, Basic Books

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• A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.

  Paul Fussell

  Travel, Book, Romance

  Paul Fussell (1982). “Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars”, p.203, Oxford University Press

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• The big scandal was when I was in seventh grade and I modeled a bathing suit. Everybody freaked out!

  Jennifer Morrison

  Suits, Grades, Bigs

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