#unsavory

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

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The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not. ↗

— Thomas Perry

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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

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In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

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I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#better #customers #doctrine #forgetting #got

Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters. ↗

— Will Arnett

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