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• When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Faults, Study, Forget You

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• I'm offended by political jokes. Too often they get elected.

  Henny Youngman

  Political, Political Jokes, Jokes

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• If you're offended, it's your problem.

  Salman Rushdie

  Problem, Ifs

  "Hezbollah calls for continued protests over anti-muslim film". "AM" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. September 18, 2012.

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• What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Kindness, Inspirational Life, Thinking

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• Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in?

  Brad Stine

  Believe, Guy, Irrational

  Brad Stine (2006). “Live from Middle America: Rants from a Red-State Comedian”, Hudson st Press

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• Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.

  Tucker Max

  Dumb, Sound, Answering Questions

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• If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

  Joyce Meyer

  Offended You, Sowing, Needs

  Twitter post from Oct 13, 2012

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• Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Thinking, Men, Self

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

  John C. Maxwell

  Struggle, Offended You, Views

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• Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this causes me no qualms. I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Thinking, Odin

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• It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Offended You, Easy

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• I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Believe, Offended You, Expression

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  I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

  Dolly Parton

  Funny, Inspiring, Girly

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• Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

  Patsy Cline

  Offended You, Opinion, Should

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• People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like.

  Eminem

  Hate, People, Speak The Truth

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• The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Men, Insulted Him

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.67, First Avenue Editions

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• Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Work, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.283, North Point Press

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• If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.

  Stephen Fry

  Phrases, Ears, World

  "Loose Ends", BBC Radio 4, 1987.

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• I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  God, Work, Technology

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• Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

  Ethan Hawke

  Dream, Growing Up, Kids

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• It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.

  Barbara Walters

  Causes, Facts, Unfortunate

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• Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.

  Fran Lebowitz

  History, House, Leaving

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from May 06, 2010

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• We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement, . . . by forgiving those who have offended us, . . . by rendering selfless service. . . .

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Humble, Forgiving, Receiving

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• The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

  Giovannino Guareschi

  Writing, Men, Offending

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• Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness.

  Ralph Marston

  Heart, Jumping, Chance

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