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• “The amazing part of the detraction is that a lot of these are the same arguments why weblogs were unnecessary and irrelevant.”

  Gillmor on Fire

• “It would surprise a great many to learn who this person was, but as no detraction is intended, I will dismiss the subject at once.”

  At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle: A True Narrative

• “Only there is this difference, that as all are more forcibly inclined to ill than good, they are much apter to exceed in detraction than in praises.”

  Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)

• “The other detraction from the pleasures of the evening, consisted in the dark uninhabited remoteness of the large chamber, from which we witnessed the exhibition; a flight of dark stairs led up to it; a few pieces of ambiguous lumber were its only furniture, and even by daylight, I did not pass the foot of that flight without a response from my nerves.”

  Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor

• “In after times the American people will cherish his memory as a precious legacy, nor will they suffer any detraction from the merit of his character or his services.”

  A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln

• “Having him as more of a central character in the film took away the edge, he became more on an ‘everyman’, a detraction from the character they’re trying to build … the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Let me quickly address, Iron Man 2 is awesome and serves the franchise well, but I also left the theatre with the feeling that the entire thing was a big set-up of the forth-coming Avengers film.”

  REVIEW: The Super Ensemble of IRON MAN 2 « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more

• “If you have exposed some crime that he really committed, your sin is called detraction; if you accuse him of one he did not commit, your sin is calumny; and if you maliciously circulate these reports to injure his character, your sin is slander.”

  Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine

• “Now, contumely, as you will remark, does not seek primarily to deprive one of a good name; which it nearly always succeeds in doing, and this is called detraction; but its object is to prevent your good name from getting its desert of respect, your character supposedly remaining intact.”

  Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

• “Hmm, Hillary's experience and popularity a "detraction" from Sen. Obama's election run?”

  Carter says unity ticket would be 'worst mistake'

• “I sound like a broken record, but this kind of detraction from our one goal in November is so typical of some so called "Democrats", it will be hard enough to deal with the Republicans and now this.”

  Election Central Saturday Roundup

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