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The most basic underlying reason for the attraction is indeed the infamy of these criminals... who have been super-hyped in the media and are household words, many deeply insecure people who crave attention and validation from a well-known person seek out the famous criminal as the subject of their love and attraction. Their lives are usually empty and boring with no prospect of achievement or self-actualization, so they believe their association with the killer will fill the void. – Casey Jordan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I was surprised Alpo was being that bold and brash – the dude is not bulletproof, a lot of these Mafia mobsters are on YouTube or the internet as well-known informants enjoying their notoriety and their infamy on social media but they’re even not going back to where they’re from. – Seth Ferranti	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Let Susan Stokes not forget we had the largest national election in American history amid the pandemic and it went off without a hitch, november 3 was a day that will not in infamy but will live in fame for the exercise of democracy, and we ought not to forget that. There's a lot of strength in the system. – Sean Wilentz	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Today, Dec. 18, 2019, is another date that will live in infamy. – Republican Representative Mike Kelly	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Notoriety serves as a reward for these killers and as a call-to-action for others who would seek to do similar harm in the name of infamy. – Dan Gross	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I think Democrats are going to be pleased, he's not going to go far enough to quiet the critics. This was no 'day of infamy' speech. – David Yepsen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth – Stephen Vizinczey	added by anonymous 10 years ago
He is not dead who departs this life with high fame; dead is he, though living, whose brow is branded with infamy. – Tieck	added by anonymous 12 years ago
All property which comes to hand by means of violence, or infamy, or baseness, however large it may be, is tainted and unblest. On the other hand, whatever is obtained by honest profit, small though it be, brings a blessing with it.* – Akhlak-i-Jalali	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy. – Tieck	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. – Franklin D. Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some into a more fortunate estate, and some quite contrary. . .Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. . .The soul passeth from form to form and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man yea, thou art from everlasting. – Hermes	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The most basic underlying reason for the attraction is indeed the infamy of these criminals... who have been super-hyped in the media and are household words, many deeply insecure people who crave attention and validation from a well-known person seek out the famous criminal as the subject of their love and attraction. Their lives are usually empty and boring with no prospect of achievement or self-actualization, so they believe their association with the killer will fill the void.

– Casey Jordan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was surprised Alpo was being that bold and brash – the dude is not bulletproof, a lot of these Mafia mobsters are on YouTube or the internet as well-known informants enjoying their notoriety and their infamy on social media but they’re even not going back to where they’re from.

– Seth Ferranti

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Let Susan Stokes not forget we had the largest national election in American history amid the pandemic and it went off without a hitch, november 3 was a day that will not in infamy but will live in fame for the exercise of democracy, and we ought not to forget that. There's a lot of strength in the system.

– Sean Wilentz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Today, Dec. 18, 2019, is another date that will live in infamy.

– Republican Representative Mike Kelly

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Notoriety serves as a reward for these killers and as a call-to-action for others who would seek to do similar harm in the name of infamy.

– Dan Gross

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I think Democrats are going to be pleased, he's not going to go far enough to quiet the critics. This was no 'day of infamy' speech.

– David Yepsen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

– Stephen Vizinczey

added by anonymous
10 years ago

He is not dead who departs this life with high fame; dead is he, though living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

– Tieck

added by anonymous
12 years ago

All property which comes to hand by means of violence, or infamy, or baseness, however large it may be, is tainted and unblest. On the other hand, whatever is obtained by honest profit, small though it be, brings a blessing with it.*

– Akhlak-i-Jalali

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941

added by anonymous
13 years ago

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

– Tieck

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

– Benjamin Franklin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

added by anonymous
14 years ago

From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some into a more fortunate estate, and some quite contrary. . .Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. . .The soul passeth from form to form and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man yea, thou art from everlasting.

– Hermes

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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