“ Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ”
- Georges Bataille- Copy
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“ There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place. ”
- Joseph De Maistre- Copy
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“ The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. ”
- Newt Gingrich- Copy
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“ As long as the federal government refuses to put a sound regulatory system in place for drug reimportation, Americans are at risk of falling prey to a tainted drug supply. ”
- Herb Kohl- Copy
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“ The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
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