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• Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. Christian should take a stronger stand in favor of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the strong.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Peace, Strong

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• It would seem to me... an offense against nature, for us to come on the same scene endowed as we are with the curiosity, filled to overbrimming as we are with questions, and naturally talented as we are for the asking of clear questions, and then for us to do nothing about, or worse, to try to suppress the questions.

  Lewis Thomas

  Science, Curiosity, Trying

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.

  Washington Irving

  War, Two Nations, Ill Will

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.54, Penguin

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• In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

  Moliere

  Men, Clothes, Giving

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.39, Penguin

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• My mother, unlike yours, never exchanged sexual favors for a piece of silver," he said, addressing the first insult by banging the boy's head against the trunk of the tree. "And," he said with another resounding thump, "although I'm very familiar with that part of the female body, I take offense at being labeled one.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Boys, Tree

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.69, Penguin UK

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• Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Defense, Matter, Able

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Mar 15, 2017

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• She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

  Henry James

  Way, Certain

  Henry James (1994). “Henry James: selected works”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  People, Should, Type

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• I'd have to swing by the house first to change into something more comfortable.” “That's fine,” he said. “I'm all for you changing into something more comfortable.” “I'll bet you are,” she said knowingly. “Now, don't start getting fresh,” he said, feigning offense. “I don't think we know each other well enough for that.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking, Swings, House

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• Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, feel nostalgia, scrub stains, have religions and political parties and laws, wear keepsakes, apologize years after an offense, whisper, fear themselves, interpret dreams, hide their genitalia, shave, bury time capsules, and can choose not to eat something for reasons of conscience. The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dream, Children, Party

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• It's like living in a retirement home! Clarence is taking a nap right now, and he eats at five. It's so boring." "You've only been here for two days." "And that's been more than enough. The only thing keeping me alive is that he keeps a hefty supply of liquor on hand. But at the rate I'm going, that'll be gone by the weekend. Jesus Christ, I'm climbing the walls." His eyes fell on the cross at my neck. "Oh. Sorry. No offense to Jesus.

  Richelle Mead

  Jesus, Retirement, Wall

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• Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

  Jane Austen

  Forever, Forgiving, Vices

  "Fictional character: Mr. Darcy". "Pride & Prejudice", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Gundar isn't so much a ship's captain as a reformed pirate and a heathen." [Evanlyn] looked apologetically at Gundar. "No offense, Gundar." The skirl shrugged cheerfully. "None taken, little lady. It's a pretty fair description. Not sure about the reformed part," he added thoughtfully.

  John Flanagan

  Taken, Pirate, Littles

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• How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

  Moliere

  Father, Son, Repentance

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.247, Penguin

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• I've been stabbed before. Barely a week ago, in fact. AND I've been audited, AND I come from a broken home. In short - no offense, shorty - you don't scare me.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Home, Broken, Scare

  MaryJanice Davidson (2004). “Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.221, Penguin

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• Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Heart, Men

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.55, U of Nebraska Press

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• I will make certain that our military is the best in the world in both cyber offense and defense and in every other way, by the way. Every other way.

  Donald Trump

  Military, Offense And Defense, World

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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• To be in America illegally is actually a civil offense and not a criminal one.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  America, Criminals

  Source: www.today.com

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• Political correctness and so many of the political fashions of the day...could only be perpetrated in adolescent minds: minds, that is, that are trained to search out one thing and one thing only...Only an adolescent would find it worthwhile to devote his or her attention chiefly to the hunting of offenses, the possibility of slights, real and imagined.

  Joseph Epstein

  Fashion, Real, Hunting

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• He seemed very calm. He was controlling of the offense, making call and checks and things like that. But things happen and we have to readjust and come back stronger every series and at times we failed to do that as an offense. But we need to improve on that. It's something we need to learn from and the type of guys we have on this team, the character, I see us really improving from this.

  Vadal Alexander

  Team, Character, Lsu

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• Just executing better. Getting into plays that help the offense as a whole, knowing our assignments better and just starting off stronger as you know we've struggled to do at times.

  Vadal Alexander

  Lsu, Play, Knowing

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• I think we came out and got the first goals fairly easily and fairly quickly. All of a sudden they started to change the defense and they changed things up on us and I thought we got a little too comfortable. I give their goalie credit, he made some very good saves, but we just wanted to score. We changed some things halfway through the fourth quarter and we were able to generate some shots. I think for most of the year we've been good on offense. We haven't really struggled like that. We knew coming into the season that we'd have to share the ball on offense and really be efficient.

  John Desko

  Thinking, Years, Giving

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• Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Firsts, Waking, Crime

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.327, Penguin

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• Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Jail, African American

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• My head aches every time Donald Trump successfully dodges a question with this reoccurring tactic. What's his worst offense? I don't know. How long is this article?

  Chrissy Teigen

  Long, Tactics, Dodge

  Source: www.glamour.com

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