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There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
Anna Sewell / Novelist
Kindness
Religion
Men
Animal
Beast
People
Teach
Love Good Man
Sham
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Sham liberty will be proclaimed everywhere.
Nostradamus / Apothecary
Liberty
Everywhere
Proclaimed
Sham
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This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.
Marion Barry / American Politician
Sham
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Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.
Rob Corddry / Actor
Ethanol
Form
Oil
Pure
Just As Much
Sham
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For many, the loan modification process has been a giant sham.
Lisa Madigan /
Loan
Modification
Giant
Sham
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
Tom Waits / Singer-Songwriter
Friends
Beer
Champagne
Pain
Real
Real Friends
Real Pain
Sham
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Award functions are a big sham. It's a money-making television programme.
Kay Kay Menon /
Award
Functions
Programme
Sham
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray / Novelist
Jewels
Real
Vice Versa
Vices
Diamonds
Pass
Sham
Versa
Vice
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If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.
Patricia Arquette / Film Actress
Sham
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If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
William Morris / Artist
Art
Hate
Real
Least
Reject
Sham
To Love
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Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.
Jesse Ventura / Politician
Religion
Numbers
Organized
Organized Religion
Crutch
Sham
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I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.
Eric Lefkofsky / Entrepreneur
Company
Great Business
Businesses
Sham
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There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.
Matthew Lillard / Actor
Auditioning
Several
Sham
The Problem With
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I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.
Rupert Everett / Actor
Belief
Firsts
Microsoft
Thinking
Obviously
Rudimentary
Sham
Windows
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I know it was all a bit of a sham. But I know that Mickey Dolenz sang. And Davy Jones sang. And Mike Nesmith sang. And Peter Tork did something.
Ronnie James Dio / Vocalist
Mickey
Mike
Peter
Sang
Sham
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The government shutdown, we all know that's a sham. I mean, are they really going to just go to the entire Army and Navy and say, 'You're fired.'
Mike Leach / Football Coach
Army
Navy
Entire
Fired
Sham
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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Desmond Tutu / Activist
Capacity
Children
Heart
Humbug
Wonderful
Gift
Expose
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It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
David Brock / Journalist
Democracy
Journalism
Organized
Firsthand
Indeed
Pen
Sham
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At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.
Nick Mancuso / Actor
Car
Crackers
Fame
Forever
Roots
Box
Dried
Root
Sham
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I never liked going to school and would sham and play football. I played in the centre forward position. If ever given a choice, I would love to represent Barcelona.
Tiger Shroff /
Barcelona
Centre
Represent
Play Football
Sham
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Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
Jesse Ventura / Politician
Religion
Business
Fear
Noses
Numbers
Organized
Organized Religion
People
Go
Crutch
Other
Stick
Sham
Tells
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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
Joseph Conrad / Author
Conscious
Detached
Feelings
Impossible
Literature
Love Is
Mystic
Resignation
Informed
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Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
John Polanyi /
Quality
Assessment
Applying
Criterion
Insist
Instead
Largely
Lend
Scientists
Sham
Socio-Economic
Though
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Neither an almost $35 million Mueller investigation, ending in an exonerating report, nor a sham impeachment effort could deter Trump from moving forward with the business of the American people.
Kayleigh Mcenany /
Effort
Impeachment
Investigation
Moving
Moving Forward
Trump
American People
Report
Deter
Ending
Million
Neither
Nor
Sham
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An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Courage
Disinterested
Mockery
Virtue
Popular
Preserve
Sham
Trained
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If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'
Jesse Williams /
Rigged
Voting
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Statement
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Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.
Theresa May / British Politician
Becoming
Britain
Burden
Migrants
People
Speak
Speak English
Rules
Allowed
Widespread
Marriages
Settle
Sham
Taxpayer
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By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.
Felicity Huffman / Film Actress
Contraception
Inquiry
Issues
Sides
Support
Views
Definition
Republicans
Mandate
Sham
Testify
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Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.
Hugo Chavez / Former President Of Venezuela
Running
Book
Democracy
Elites
First Time
Honduras
Liberal Democracy
Reality
Spain
Run
False
Liberal
Sham
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The early music I heard was Top of the Pops. But in bedrooms, around the house with my brother playing the Sex Pistols, Sham 69 and the Ham and all these groups then going into that sort of mod turnover scene and then going into the New Romantics scene the coming of age myself in the mid-eighties and into the noughties, it was changing.
Sean Dyche /
Coming Of Age
Ham
Pistols
Pops
Sex Pistols
Turnover
Age Music Myself
Bedrooms
Romantics
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