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Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

Louis Pasteur

He won't be as powerful as he once was. He will have been tainted by scandal.

Richard Semiatin

To suggest that New Zealand journalists who join the EPMU for the workplace protections and rights that come with belonging to a union are somehow tainted is a gross slur on their professionalism.

Andrew Little

It's tainted because it violates the spirit of the law. The point of the Clean Election Act is to set this barrier between contributors and the candidate.

Marvin Druker

The odds are far in Boeing's favor, but at the same time it's a program that's really been tainted from an ethical standpoint.

Myles Walton

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

George Bataille

It's very difficult for the Iraqi government to govern because the security situation is still very unstable. Among the most pressing problems, the most pressing is to try to construct a military and security bureaucracy that is not essentially tainted by militias or militia loyalties.

Michael Hudson

This is yet another indication that the ANC government refuses to act firmly against corruption and seems determined to keep the former deputy president at the forefront of its badly tainted public image.

Sheila Camerer

The good news is we haven't detected any anthrax-tainted mail at any of our facilities in the U.S. mail system.

Al Desarro

If you have a biased party funding a study, the study will be tainted. We should have learned this from the tobacco industry. They're still trying to tell us secondhand smoke isn't dangerous.

Robin Stearns

This is a public health issue. We don't allow restaurants and bars to serve tainted foods or have cockroaches and rats. We require the help to wash their hands. We have all kinds of requirements, and they're all for public health.

Kathy Drea

Bonds stood as the symbol of the tainted era, of its bitter contradictions and the great consequences.

Howard Bryant

The government is either going to consent to a retrial because the jury verdict was tainted by potentially perjured testimony or the government is going to have to explain to the court why the prejudiced testimony was harmless -- in other words, that the testimony did not influence the jury's verdict.

Tai Park

They might not get in as early as they thought they would. I think that the numbers are tainted. You just don't hit 70 home runs and have guys hit it in back-to-back seasons. It opens your eyes that there's something wrong here.

Andre Dawson

We're acting to protect the US financial sector from this network's tainted drug profits, as well as ensure Wei and his cohorts can't use the American financial system to move or launder their opium proceeds.

Robert Werner

We are speaking to groups throughout the state, reminding them to vote 'NO' to weakening term limits. This ballot initiative has been tainted from the start. The outcome will be meaningless because the electorate has been presented with a deceptive question.

Max Linn

This isn't a public service announcement, it's a very expensive radio campaign. It's unfortunate that a seemingly good program has been tainted.

John Truscott

He still refuses to give back the tainted money from disgraced party leaders.

John Lapp

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Newt Gingrich

I think both of them avoid some of the tainted stuff from the pay raise because neither of them are incumbents, so I don't think they're going to be tarred and feathered with the same stick as incumbents.

Jerry Shuster

Trees breath just like we do, and their lungs were tainted by all this bad air.

Dave Phillips

Records set now have to have some sort of a cloud and might be tainted by what [the players] have been taking, if they've in fact been taking it. But we don't know what they're taking. We still need a lot more facts.

Fay Vincent

He made his own bed and now he has to lie in it. If he says he had tainted supplements, that's fine for him to claim. But at some point somebody has to come up positive and not have taken supplements.

David Newhan

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 Marie De Maistre

This was not an unexpected situation. We don't know if there's another (anthrax-tainted) letter.

Dan Nichols

We don't suspect there are any tainted bottles out in the marketplace. But we want to be sensitive to customers' concerns about this issue.

Mike Deangelis

I think because of Oliver, people are aware what is out there in this sewage-tainted water.

Friederike Boszko

It is the industry standard to put forth tainted information to sell the most drugs, ... Whether that is a sustainable situation that investors can benefit from, I can't answer that.

John Abramson

It is essential the commission be a place of the utmost integrity and there be no question as to whether it's tainted by the presence of one member or another. I fear we are now at a point where there is a cloud over this body.

Richard Hirschhaut

We hope we've acted in time to avoid anyone becoming sick as a result of this incident. We advise anyone who believes that they or their child may have been exposed to tainted food to contact their local health department to report the exposure.

Joan Miles

Fairfax County cut a tainted and corrupt deal with my son's killer, This scum, this murderer, killed Brendan, who was a totally innocent bystander.

Steve Tash

We've got a big problem with the rest of the country thinking all seafood in Louisiana is tainted. It's not.

Harlon Pearce

We don't believe the nation is smothered with tainted Tylenol.

Owen J. Mcclain

What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.

Frantz Fanon

He's got himself an extremely tainted asset - this is by no means over.

Oliver Houston

DNA evidence has revealed a finite but troubling class of convictions tainted by what is best described as 'false facts': forensic evidence that likely carried great weight with the original jury, but which is now known, to a scientific certainty, to have been erroneous.

Peter Neufeld