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• Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a bady's beshattered diaper, as one might pinch a recently benutted condom. You glance at the offending passages. Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

  Junot Diaz

  Baby, Men, Looks

  "Alma" by Junot Díaz, www.newyorker.com. December 24, 2007.

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• The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women. White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.

  Ida B. Wells

  Girl, Men, Yield

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• I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Japan, Trying, Looks

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• I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Culture, Ifs

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• A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries.

  Billy Connolly

  Religious, People, Century

  "Billy Connolly: 'My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• If you go to a diner in the middle of America, people are having these conversations, but our politicians are too scared to bring it up because they're worried about offending the 0.002 percent of the country that may somehow be subject to what the conversation may be. And it's ridiculous.

  Donald Trump, Jr.

  Country, America, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

  Randall Robinson

  People, Trouble, Worried

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.

  Fanny Burney

  Sarcasm, Thinking, Practice

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.397, Delphi Classics

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• We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

  John Ruskin

  Law, Novelists, May

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...”, p.15

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• F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions--did not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment.

  Angela Carter

  Reading, Dubious, Fiction

  Angela Carter (2012). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, p.22, Random House

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• It's very irresponsible as a parent to follow Tipper Gore or the Religious Right's advice and just take the offending CD or game away from the kid without discussing it.

  Jello Biafra

  Religious, Kids, Cds

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

  Richard Armour

  May, Radio, Telephones

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• It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and offending life, destroying the dream, and making love unviable. If education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either.

  Paulo Freire

  Dream, Country, Teenager

  Paulo Freire (2015). “Pedagogy of Indignation”, p.50, Routledge

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• Courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it, and when it is only a kind of instinct in the Soul breaks out on all occasions without judgment or discretion. That courage which proceeds from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Soul, Break Out

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.193

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• There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Speaking Well, Land, Dwelling

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• I am disappointed to find myself accused in some papers of supplying the offending sweets, particularly as I am a fruit pastille man.

  Alastair Cook

  Sweet, Men, Paper

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• That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

  Joseph Addison

  Bravery, Uniforms, Reason

  Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.226

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• Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Believe, Animal

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• I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody.

  George Lopez

  Say Anything, Comedy, Offensive

  "George Lopez Discusses His New Late-Night Talk Show". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 26, 2009.

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• There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Hands, Long

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• [French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

  Horace Walpole

  Ambitious, Delicacy, Sublimity

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• The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.

  Sloane Crosley

  Home, Writing, Night

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• No Compromise is what the whole Gospel of Jesus is all about... 'For I tell you...no man can serve two masters...' (Matt. 6:24). In a day when believers seem to be trying to please both the world and the Lord (which is an impossible thing), when people are far more concerned about offending their friends than offending God, there is only one answer...Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him!

  Keith Green

  Jesus, Men, Impossible Things

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• Devil does not bring sinners to Hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. He thus leads them to eternal perdition. Before we fall into sin, the enemy labours to blind us, that we may not see the evil we do, and the ruin we bring upon ourselves by offending God. After we commit sin, he seeks to make us dumb, that, through shame, we may conceal our guilt in confession.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Fall, Eye, Evil

  "Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori: For All the Sundays of the Year".

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• Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sight, Names, Saint

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.2042, Bible Study Steps

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