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I feel very accepted, like I never have any slander. I never have any issues. You know, like, when people see me, they respect me. It's all about how you carry yourself.

American Musician

Victor Hugo

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

French Author

Abraham Lincoln

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

American President

H. L. Mencken

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

American Writer

Fat Joe

To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

Mazie Hirono

The defense to slander is the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts.

American Politician

Gustave Flaubert

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

French Novelist

Fidel Castro

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

Statesman

Napoleon Bonaparte

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

French Statesman

Barbra Streisand

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

American Actress

Use 'slander' for spoken words, not written ones, which is called 'libel'.

Spoken Context

'Slander' can involve legal consequences due to damage to reputation.

Legal Implications

For a statement to be 'slander', there must be proof it harmed someone's reputation.

Proof of Harm

When using 'slander' as a verb, it shows active participation in damaging someone.

Active Accusation

As a verb, 'slander' should have a direct object, the person being slandered.

Direct Object

'Slander' implies sharing false statements with others, not private conversations.

Public Exposure

 and it just registers the negative space. So they go around and do art installations like this. All the things that go up there, they said there's a life cycle. First it starts with the sexual organs, then it starts with cuss words, then it was Bush slanders and then people actually got to art.

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 a politician named Kleon took Aristophanes to court for "slandering the people of Athens in the presence of foreigners." Aristophanes struck back two years later with a play called The Knights. In it, he openly mocked Kleon, ending with Kleon’s character working as a lowly sausage seller

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 of what has happened to people who've taken controversial stands or discovered disquieting findings in the behavioral sciences. There are many cases, some of which I talk about in the book, of people who have been slandered, called Nazis,

Steven Pinker: Human...

 I realized one I have never had the courage to say in a public space that I was bisexual myself, because I so feared the slander and the stigma and the ridicule and the hatred that was sure to follow.

The revolutionary power...

 Well, I'm here to tell you that we've got this animal all wrong -- and how understanding the truth about the sloth may help save us and this planet we both call home. I traced sloth-based slander

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 divided into two mongooses we found here from the water mongoose that's so hard to see we find the slander Mongoose that's one we normally see and these mongooses also the banded mongoose we

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 and instigate riots." "Such slander! The July Days were a spontaneous and justified reaction against the government's failures. And Kerensky showed his true colors when he blamed Lenin

History vs. Vladimir...

 customers nations and companies and individuals who have put down real money to put their stuff on Astrobotic slander one of those paying customers happens to be an X Prize competitor

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 so whatever you curse at me to your caddyshack go-for-this, go-for-that assistant when I walk out that door, whatever slander you send my way, your mother. Thank you.

Lemon Andersen performs...

 share that could only be one thing to find out that's what I came here for to find that elusive beautiful Jim that just sort of ban slander date over me

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