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• It clearly appears that there are no races in the world, however rude, uncultivated, barbarous, gross, or almost brutal they may be, who cannot be persuaded and brought to a good order and way of life, and made domestic, mild and tractable, provided . . . the method that is proper and natural to men is used; that is, love and gentleness and kindness.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Life, Kindness, Men

  Bartolomé de las Casas (1992). “Witness: writings of Bartolomé de las Casas”

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• But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

  Rudy Rucker

  Smart, Doe, Plugs

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• Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

  Rudy Rucker

  Looks, Way, Certain

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• All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.

  Mel Brooks

  Hatred, Toes, Someday

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• It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Christian, Courage, Blessing

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• In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

  Lyman Abbott

  New York, Space, Energy

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• Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fascists, Subculture, Brainless

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea.

  George Alex Stevens

  Brother, Sea, Sailor

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• It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Hands, Achievement

  Karl Pearson (2011). “The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• Your story needs to move people’s spirits and build their goodwill, so that when you finally do ask them to buy from you, they feel like you’ve given them so much it would be almost rude to refuse.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Moving, People, Would Be

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• Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

  Rudy Rucker

  Book, Fall, Strategy

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. August 27, 2002.

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• There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, “why?” is a rude question. That depends, I believe, on whether it is an honest search, in faith, for His meaning, or whether it is the challenge of unbelief and rebellion.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Believe, Challenges, Honest

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “On Asking God Why: And Other Reflections on Trusting God in a Twisted World”, p.18, Revell

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• People who expect to feel guilty tend to be more sympathetic, to put themselves into other people's shoes, to think about the consequences of their behaviour before acting, and to treasure their morals. As a result they are less prone to lie, cheat or behave immorally when they conduct a business deal or spot an opportunity to make money, studies suggest. They are also likely to make better employees because people who think less about the future results of their actions are more likely to be late, to steal or to be rude to clients.

  David D. Burns

  Lying, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: time.com

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• Is it rude to Twitter during sex? To go "omg, omg, wtf, zzz"? Is that rude?

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Sex, Humor

  "Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction". TV Special, www.imdb.com. December 6, 2009.

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• One of my pet peeves is that when people are in their automobiles, I think they're exceptionally rude on the road. I would love to have the superpower to make their cars break down after they do something rude on the road so the freeways would be littered with these jackasses who have broken-down cars.

  Chris Carmack

  Thinking, Car, People

  "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to be inhospitable to strangers; whose salutation is as rude as the grasp of their brawny hands, and who deal with men as unceremoniously as they are wont to deal with the elements. They need only extend their clearings, and let in more sunlight, to seek out the southern slopes of the hills, from which they may look down on the civil plain or ocean, and temper their diet duly with the cereal fruits, consuming less wild meat and acorns, to become like the inhabitants of cities.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Ocean, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1862). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau”, p.211

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• I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows and Hallmark cards and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it's everything in the world and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.

  Penn Jillette

  Blue, Sky, Cards

  "There Is No God". "This I Believe" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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• A child of the new generation Refused to learn multiplication. He said 'Don't conclude That I'm stupid or rude; I am simply without motivation.'

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Children, Motivation, Stupid

  Joel Henry Hildebrand (1948). “The lowdown on higher education”

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• If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them up and finding different ways of saying the same thing... I get into a spell, and it all comes easy. I don't labor over it. I go inside the song, I think you make yourself an antenna for songs, and songs want to be around you. And then they bring other songs along, and then they're all sitting around, and they're drinkin' your beer, and they're sleeping on the floor. And they are using the phone, they're rude, thankless little f---ers.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Drinking, Sleep

  "Waits In Wonderland". Image Magazine Interview with Rip Rense, December 13, 1992.

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• Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks, a gang of vicious monkeys jerking off in a zoo cage... more disgusting by nature than maggots oozing out the carcass of a dead animal.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Zoos, Animal, Monkeys

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• I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about.

  Jack Nicholson

  Age, Groups, Care

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• So all my friends have kids now... which I think is rude.

  David Cross

  Funny, Humor, Kids

  "It's Not Funny". Stand-up comedy album, November 14, 2004.

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• I had a very good time when I did The Gleaners - even though the people are poor, and I was suffering to see the conditions, and plus they are not such lovely hearts. They are tough to each other, they beat each other, they are rude and they are violent and they drink. They're not sweethearts, you know, but some were so interesting.

  Agnes Varda

  Heart, People, Interesting

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.

  John Clare

  Sweet, Silence, Solitude

  John Clare, Eric Robinson, David Powell (2004). “Major Works”, p.413, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.

  Richard Whately

  Block, Needs, Rotten

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.245

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