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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

~Barbara Cartland

Topics: Absolutely Around Beautiful Degrading Destroy Feminine Her Idealistic Later Personality Ruins Sleep Sooner Sooner Or Later Will Woman Wrong

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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

~Barbara Castle

Topics: Degrading Had Humiliating Law Mainly Means People Poor Provided Receiving Relief Rely State Test Very Welfare Welfare State

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After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

~Billy Sunday

Topics: After Business Degrading Everything Family Individual Influence Liquor Old Old World Politics Said Touch Traffic World You

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You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

~Charlotte Gainsbourg

Topics: Being Being A Girl Degrading Girl Know Like Love Secretly Think You

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Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

~Charlotte Gainsbourg

Topics: Boots Boy Cause Cut Degrading Girl Hair Jeans Like Look Okay Shirts Short Wear

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The evidence is overwhelming that it should be deemed as such: solitary confinement in the U.S. is arbitrary, abused, and unnecessary in many situations. It is cruel, degrading, and inhumane and is effectively a 'no touch' torture.

~Chelsea Manning

Topics: Abuse Arbitrary Confinement Cruel Deemed Degrading Effectively Evidence Inhumane Many Overwhelming Should Situations Solitary Solitary Confinement Torture Touch Unnecessary

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Yes, I've seen Louis CK. I wouldn't in any way make a degrading remark about Louis CK, but the question is do I think anyone is funny? And the answer is not too many people. He might fit right in there.

~Chevy Chase

Topics: About Answer Any Anyone Degrading Fit Funny He Louis Make Many Might People Question Remark Right Seen Think Too Too Many People Way Yes I Think

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I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

~Christopher Hampton

Topics: About Commonplace Degrading Fail Having Humiliating Husband Rival Something Succeed Think You I Think

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The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real wealth ultimately comes.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Also Borrowing Debt Degrading Future Human Long Long Way Massively Meeting Money Needs Only Present Real Resources Ultimately Up Way Wealth Which World

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There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Burn Deep Degrading Drain Drill Dump Earth Exception Fish Flood Hardly Life Log No Life Ocean Pave People Place Plow Possible Spill Spray Where Zone

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