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• We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the terribly offensive sins of the fleshthat shock them, but the awful nature of the pride of their own hearts opposing Jesus Christ. When they see themselves in the light of the Lord, the shame, the horror, and desperate conviction hit home for them.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Home, Heart

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• I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes: I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.

  Colley Cibber

  Eye, Hands, Two

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• Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.

  William Shenstone

  Distance, Degrees, Objects

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.65

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• With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Growing, Profit

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• All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.

  John Hagee

  Believe, New Orleans, Heaven

  Interview with Matt Corley, thinkprogress.org. April 23, 2008.

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• A warrior can be injured but not offended. For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of her fellow human beings, as long as she herself is acting in the proper mood.

  Robert Spencer

  Attitude, Warrior, Long

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• If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.

  William J. Brennan

  Government, Expression, Ideas

  "Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397". 1989.

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• Faggot isn't offensive to gays; it's got nothing to do with gays.

  Ann Coulter

  Gay, Homosexuality

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• I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since you have it at hand to meet situations that you do not anticipate. If you have the luxury of anticipating a lethal encounter, you pick up a long arm, either a rifle or a shotgun, but in that case you go on to the attack. Thus rifle shooting is offensive, and pistol shooting is defensive. Of course, life does not always duplicate theory, and there are exceptions to everything, but nevertheless the rifle is not a defensive weapon in concept.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Hands, Luxury

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• Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.

  Seneca the Younger

  Grief, Air, Console

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXIII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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• I look at how we got beat and I thought the hustle points and the energy points were all gauged through offensive rebounds. I thought in the second half they got so many second-chance opportunities they could really run. It just seemed like they were going up our guys' backs. When you don't get any offensive rebounds and they start going the other team's way, it's almost like a snowball effect.

  Ray Allen

  Running, Team, Opportunity

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• Nevertheless, I tend to get offensive easily.

  Robert Loggia

  Nevertheless

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• I lift weights, but that's not my main focus. I'm a fighter now, and I want to evolve and make myself a well-rounded fighter, so obviously I'm not going to leave any stone unturned, when it comes to submissions, submission defense, striking, knees, leg kicks, and also learning to defend everything. It's not just an offensive sport because you're going to take some punches and you're going to give some punches. You've got to be able to handle both sides of the spectrum. I've brought in a number of highly trained trainers to help me evolve, and I believe we've left no stone unturned.

  Brock Lesnar

  Sports, Believe, Numbers

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• Armies are not only for offensives.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Army

  "An Interview With Bashar Al-Assad". Interview to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, www.memri.org. June 12, 2000.

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• We did not think that [Egyptian President] Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to Sinai on May 14 would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  War, Thinking, Israel

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• They are by far the worst drivers. They are spiteful, dithering, old and in the way. They should have their licences taken away.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Taken, Should Have, Way

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• When you've finished using a car, put the f***ing seat back, so humans can use it afterwards.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Car, Use, Humans

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• We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Country, Order, Office

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• I am determined, even if they throw mud in my face, never to show any resentment, nor break with them, nor deviate from the esteem and honor I owe them in the sight of God. If they forget themselves and say or do something offensive against your little bark, even if it is done purposely to make it sink, bear with it for the love of God, who will save you from shipwreck and calm the storm. Do not complain or even say a single work about it. In spite of everything, continue to compliment them when you meet, as if nothing were amiss.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Sight, Honor

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stones, Sake, Journalism

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1056, Wordsworth Editions

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• ...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Water, Buckets

  Winston Churchill (2005). “The World Crisis, 1911-1918”, p.776, Simon and Schuster

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• There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

  Anatole Broyard

  Art, Real, Play

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• Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.

  Westbrook Pegler

  Rights, America, Long

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• You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.

  Harold Bloom

  Writing, Thinking, Want

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• It is my fervent goal and hope... that we will someday no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Goal, Effort, World

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