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• The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use

  Emma Thompson

  Education, Religious, Condom Use

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• Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Empathy, Apathy, Unfair

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.110, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe those who demand financial compensation for offense ought to have it ended for them.

  Tom Robbins

  Demand, Financial, Ends

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.201, Bantam

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• When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.

  Simon Sinek

  Country, School, College

  "Work Together: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• All labels are offensive in some way.

  J Mascis

  Labels, Way

  "J Mascis: 'I never took it that seriously'". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2012.

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• I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

  Marilyn Manson

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• Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it.

  Gayle Pemberton

  Mother, Real, Justice

  Gayle Pemberton (1998). “The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter”, p.41, Wesleyan University Press

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• In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.

  Preet Bharara

  Black, Information, Financial

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• Prevailing prayer is prayer that pushes right through all difficulties and obstacles, drives back all the opposing forces of Satan, and secures the will of God. Its purpose is to accomplish God's will on earth. Prevailing prayer is prayer that not only takes the initiative but continues on the offensive for God until spiritual victory is won.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Spiritual, Prayer, Victory

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• The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is subject to the selective action of the norm of conspicuous waste, the range within which innovation can take place is somewhat restricted. The innovation must not only be more beautiful, or perhaps oftener less offensive, than that which it displaces, but it must also come up to the accepted standard of expensiveness.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Beautiful, Fashion, Expression

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.93, M.E. Sharpe

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• I know what we can control, we can control our effort and we can control our approach. We do what we're supposed to do to get some second-chance points off the offensive glass, maybe our pressure can get us some easy opportunities in the open floor and we've got to capitalize.

  Andy Kennedy

  Opportunity, Second Chance, Glasses

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• Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern with why something was developed rather than with how it has actually been found useful. The function of automobiles is to transport people and objects, but they are used for a variety of other purposes--as homes, offices, bedrooms, henhouses, jetties, breakwaters, even offensive weapons.

  Frank Smith

  Home, Office, People

  Frank Smith (2014). “To Think: In Language, Learning and Education”, p.108, Routledge

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• The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Transition, Operations

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.

  Bobby Orr

  Ice

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• Find the video that has been so offensive to Muslims to be disgusting and reprehensible.

  Jay Carney

  Video, Disgusting, Has Beens

  "President Obama's Benghazi lies unravel". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. May 06, 2013.

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• The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Military, Defense

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• How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral problem posed by the Allied air offensive should at least consider the moral problem that would have been posed if the German civilian population had not suffered at all.

  Clive James

  Peace, War, Air

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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• We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy.' If something was horribly offensive and shocking we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Family Guy, Sake, Shock

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. September 12, 2003.

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• My family and I took visits to each and every school and listened to each coaching staff. I felt the most comfortable with and really excited about playing at SC. Being close to home in one of the best offensive systems is paying off now as I'm making the jump to the pros.

  Mark Sanchez

  Home, School, Coaching

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• Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

  Criss Jami

  Business, Feels, Persons

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.118, Criss Jami

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• If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.

  Christian Marclay

  Interesting, Materials, Creator

  "The hours" by Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. March 12, 2012.

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• For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury.

  Suzan Shown Harjo

  Native American, Thinking, Names

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• There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the Internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government, and it's one that we find disgusting and reprehensible. It's been offensive to many, many people around the world. That sparked violence in various parts of the world, including violence directed against Western facilities including our embassies and consulates.

  Susan Rice

  Government, People, United States

  "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, transcripts.cnn.com. September 16, 2012.

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• The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Vanity, Self, Expression

  Alexander von Humboldt, Aimè Bonpland (1852). “Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804”, p.415

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• Real racist jokes or sexist jokes aren't funny - not because they're offensive, but because they're not true. As soon as a joke is based on an untruth, it's not funny.

  Ricky Gervais

  Real, Racist Jokes, Sexist

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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