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• I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will not. But, at least, in time you will not remember as fiercely as you do now - and I pray that that time may be soon.

  Terence Rattigan

  Death, Insults You, Funeral

  Terence Rattigan (1977). “The Collected Plays of Terence Rattigan: The sleeping prince. Separate tables. Variation on a theme. Ross. Heart to heart”

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• At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.

  Julia Cameron

  Beauty, Roots, Needs

  Julia Cameron (2005). “The Sound of Paper”, p.14, Penguin

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• There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Funny, Science, Fire

  "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.

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• People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.

  Noel Gallagher

  Thinking, Player, People

  "Who wants to be a drug addict at 41?". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2008.

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• If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Believe, Journalism, Comeback

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• The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are read by our most esteemed critics and poets (who don't usually like them much) and nobody else takes any notice. An increasing number of highly literate people simply ignore what the 'Highbrows' are doing. It says nothing to them. The Highbrows in return ignore and insult them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Race, Numbers, America

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.276, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.

  James Buchan

  Ignorance, Self, Enlightenment

  "Freedoms in the balance" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2006.

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• I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for the Lord. In the process, if I insult a couple of people, if I offend a couple of people, and if I got to shake it up a little bit, as long as it is led by the Holy Spirit, amen.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Couple, Believe, Long

  "Stephen Baldwin: The Jesus Freak of Hollywood". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Witty, Rude

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.38, Bantam

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• What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

  Sitting Bull

  Lonely, Native American, White

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more be exploited by imperialists not only by people with white skin, because we do not confuse exploitation or exploiters with the colour of men's skins; we do not want any exploitation in our countries, not even by black people.

  Amilcar Cabral

  Country, Fighting, Men

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• Some important ideas from the book of early Christians which is called Philokalia: From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God. The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess. The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself. The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Christian, Spiritual, Attitude

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• I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Talking, People, Actresses

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• We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Baffled, Compliment

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• If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.

  Hulk Hogan

  Wrestling, Fake, Ems

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• In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get...Is that because women are considered something less?

  Andrej Pejic

  Men, This Society, Ifs

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• Insults are the business of the court.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Business, Comeback, Court

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• Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization; an insult to the principles of our Declaration of Independence; a bane of our national spirit; and a stench in the nostrils of Almighty God.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Character, Civilization, Abortion

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• Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Intellectual, Criticism

  "Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding".

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• People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Distance, Communication, People

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “We Can Work it Out: Resolving Conflicts Peacefully and Powerfully”, p.9, PuddleDancer Press

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• My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest, stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness—what old and hard-worked staleness, masquerading as the all-new!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dirty, Cabbage, Juice

  Letter to Aldous and Maria Huxley, 15 August 1928, in H. T. Moore (ed.) 'Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence' (1962) vol. 2

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• Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.'

  John Lydon

  Nice, Insults You, Say Anything

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• Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.

  Robert McKee

  Lying, Meaning Of Life, Emotion

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• Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Expression, Criticism

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