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Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. Julia Roberts

Above Dictionary Just After Republican Repugnant

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. John F. Kennedy

People Word Free Society Secrecy Secret Oaths Open Open Society Opposed Historically Very Repugnant Inherently Societies

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant. Octavio Paz

Character Reality Hypocrisy Thinking Negation Consists Finds Disagreeable Also Because Affects Trait Irrational Repugnant Aspects

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. Fidel Castro

War Capitalism Competition Hypocrisy Filthy Find Because Causes Repugnant Gross

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom. Herbert Hoover

It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate. Alain Resnais

Communicate Way Only Repugnant

The right of free speech cannot be parceled out based on whether we want to hear what the speaker has to say or whether we agree with those views. It means, quite often, tolerating the expression of views that we find distasteful, perhaps even repugnant. Andrew Rosenthal

Free Free Speech Distasteful Say Those Out Find Perhaps Hear Quite Often Want Cannot Whether Repugnant Means Speaker Views Tolerating Agree Even Expression Based Right Speech

I got through college realizing business was repugnant. Bruce McCulloch

Business College Through Got Repugnant Realizing

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider! George Bernard Shaw

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.' George Lois

Behavior Men Nothing Every Strikes Mad Mad Men Possible Characters Morally More Excessive Glamorous Consumers Consumption Stereotype Sort Up Than Repugnant Convince Fulfillment Lucky Nicely Vintage Early

Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually. Ian Schrager

Wealth Status Find Idea Repugnant Old-Fashioned Old-Fashioned Idea Based Actually

When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type, most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings. John Burroughs

The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it. John Marshall

Constitution Any Controls Legislative Repugnant Act

There is some level on which this life must occasionally become repugnant and unappetizing to you and you must step back from it. And then you have a new relationship with it, and then you step back into it from a different angle - with a new appetite - and then you find the next leg of your journey. John Patrick Shanley

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left. John Podhoretz

Political Guilty Unquestionably Left American Rhetoric Repugnant Certainly Right

The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collateral damage may be heartbreaking. Mrs. Thatcher's strident, take-no prisoners approach was in some ways repugnant, but it was surely necessary. Nigel Hamilton

'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms. Sherwin B. Nuland

Life Death Nature Dignity Achieve Society Our Finality Triumph Ongoing Fact Simply Over Yearning Graceful Often Rhythms Repugnant Confrontation Sequence Event Expression Stark Universal Last

It is repugnant to an American to inform upon his fellow citizens. Sidney Buchman

Citizens Fellow Fellow Citizens His American Inform Repugnant

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations. William H. Seward

Nature You Property Constitution Law Recognition Must Would Would-Be Constitutional Void Because Answer Reply Nations Repugnant Then Sufficient Slaves

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