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source: James K. A. Smith (2006). “Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church”, p.28, Baker Academic

topic: Christian, Appreciate, Optimism, Tainted

What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.

- Frantz Fanon

topic: Men, Thinking, Air, Middle Class, Tainted

The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.

- Robert T. Bakker

topic: Dinosaurs, Extinction, Facts, Tainted, Public Image

I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.

- Kevin Shelley

topic: High Standards, Inappropriate, Accepting, Tainted

It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.

- Andre Breton

topic: Love, Sight, Firsts, Honeymoon, Tainted

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

- Aristotle

topic: May, Way, Wealth, Insolent, Tainted

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Dark, Decision, Age, Tainted

Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names â€¦Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.

- R. A. Lafferty

source: "The Flame is Green" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 5), 1971.

topic: Mean, Men, Opposites, Stingy, Tainted

You need a sanctuary. Somewhere where it doesn't feel like it's being tainted by everybody's opinions and other people's money. I think I'm kind of homesick right now.

- Mikky Ekko

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Thinking, People, Needs, Tainted

The truth is, one can work for another ten years and be playing parts, pushing yourself as hard as you can, and you are still accused of that. You're still tainted with that brush. I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law'.

- Jude Law

topic: Years, Law, Names, Tainted, Hunk

I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted,

- Melky Cabrera

source: "Rounding Third: MLB does the right thing with Cabrera ruling". www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

topic: Winning, Awards, Wish, Tainted

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.

- Azar Nafisi

topic: Dream, Reality, Suffering, Tainted, Scott Fitzgerald

Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the delay between the identification of tainted foods and the company's decision to recall those foods leads to the needless sickness of too many Americans.

- Diana DeGette

source: "What’s Needed to Protect Our Nation’s Food Supply" by Rep. Diana DeGette, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2009.

topic: Responsibility, Decision, Delay, Tainted

Show business got really tainted for me.

- Anna Chlumsky

topic: Shows, Show Business, Tainted

People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.

- Aloe Blacc

topic: Evil, People, Tolerance, Tainted

I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!

- Jonathan Raban

topic: Junk, Principles, Audacity, Tainted

The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.

- James Fallows

topic: Air, Cities, People, Stagnant Water, Tainted

I don’t believe in god. There’s no proof he exists. In a world where there isn’t even proof of the future, the past exists. Even if it’s tainted with misunderstandings and delusions, if the people themselves believe in it, the past is the truth to them. And, if you base your actions or your life around it, in a way, it’s a type of god itself.

- Ryohgo Narita

topic: Believe, Past, People, Tainted, Durarara

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

- Sonia Sotomayor

topic: Selfish, People, Heaven, Idealistic, Tainted

His smell—the scent of a demon, cinnamon incense, amber musk—wrapped around me, filled my lungs. I felt like I could breathe again, without every breath being tainted by the stench of dying cells. The smell of him seemed to coat my abused insides with peace, and flow down into the middle of my body to spread through my veins. I filled my lungs again. While I could, before what was undoubtedly a hallucination vanished.

- Lilith Saintcrow

topic: Cells, Smell, Dying, Tainted, Cinnamon

So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

topic: Simple, Errors, Law, Merchant Of Venice, Tainted

But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected. The Son must have the taste of death forever in his mouth. The Trinity must be tainted by it; there must be a certain stench at the right hand of God the Father. The horror must be real. Why would God wish that upon Himself? Why not leave death to mortals? Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? -- Love. That was his answer.

- Yann Martel

source: Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Beautiful, Father, Real, Perfect Love, Tainted

I’m your worst nightmare come to walk this side of the lines. I’m an elf, Trent something you’re forgotten how to be. You’re scared of black magic. I can see fear shimmering under your aura like sweat. I live and breathe black magic. I’m so tainted with it that I will use it without thought, without guilt and without hesitation.

- Kim Harrison

topic: Sweat, Worst Nightmares, Black, Tainted, Black Magic

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