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• We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

  John Calvin

  Charity, Faults, Should

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.33, Baker Books

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• Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.

  Ernest Belfort Bax

  Country, Mean, Class

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• In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes, and the influence of strong and extraordinary stimuli. In man precisely similar conditions constitute the usual causes of nervous and psychic disturbances. Different conditions productive of extreme excitation, such as intense grief or bitter insults, often lead, when the natural reactions are inhibited by the necessary restraint, to profound and prolonged loss of balance in nervous and psychic activity.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Dog, Strong, Grief

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• Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Revenge, Men, Injury

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.215

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• I would rather insult you than lose you, he said, and before any of them could make a move to stop him, he cast both items into the fire.

  Cassandra Clare

  Moving, Fire, Insults You

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Youever insult Bride again, I swear I'll rip your throat out and feed you to the gators in the swamp. You understand me?" - Vane

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Rip, Swamps, Gators

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.107, Macmillan

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• Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry a weapon, you're telling them, 'I'll defend you as if you were my own family.' And anyone who objects levels the deadliest insult possible: 'I don't trust you unless you're rendered harmless'!

  L. Neil Smith

  Home, Gun, House

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.121, Macmillan

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• Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Work, Optimistic, Clerks

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• Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.

  Winston Churchill

  Science, Filth, Invention

  Randolph Spencer Churchill, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1983). “Winston S. Churchill: Companion Vol. V, Part Three, the Coming of War 1936-1939”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

  Samuel Johnson

  Letters, Bows, Opinion

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772”, p.196, Princeton University Press

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• Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion." "Which is what?" Teft asked. "With spears?" Rock laughed. "No, no. We upon the Peaks are not barbarians like you down here." "How then?" Kaladin asked, genuinely curious. "Well," Rock said, "is involving much mudbeer and singing." “How's that a duel?” "He who can still sing after the most drinks is winner. Plus, soon' everyone is so drunk that they forget what argument was about." Teft laughed. "Beats knives at dawn, I suppose.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Fashion, Rocks, Knives

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• For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be aware. Somebody insults you - listen to it in full awareness. And you will be surprised - the insult is no more an insult. You may even smile. It does not hurt; it hurts only when received in unawareness. Somebody praises and appreciates you - listen with alertness. And then nobody can persuade you to do foolish things. Nobody can bribe you; flattery becomes impossible. You will smile at the whole nonsense.

  Rajneesh

  Hurt, Opportunity, Insults You

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• She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Gun, Talking

  "Clinton courts working classes with protectionist stance" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2008.

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• Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Military, War, Acquiescence

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.191, Cosimo, Inc.

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• That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Drinking, Men, Rivers

  Gustave Flaubert (1954). “The Selected Letters”

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• Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Balance, Comeback, Daily Life

  Raoul Vaneigem, Donald Nicholson-Smith (2012). “The Revolution of Everyday Life”, p.15, PM Press

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• When I haven't been kissed in a long time, I create civil disturbances, then insult the cops who show up, till one of them grabs me by the collar and hurls me up against the squad car, so I can remember, at least for a moment, what it's like to be touched.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Squad, Long, Car

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• Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Heart, Aunt, Men

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection”, p.36, Macmillan

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• This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Witty, Humorous, Mathematics

  "The Successful Toastmaster: A Treasure Chest of Introductions, Epigrams, Humor, and Quotations" by Herbert Victor Prochnow, (p. 350), 1966.

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• Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

  Guy Davenport

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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• I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy.

  Rick Riordan

  Trying, Annoying, Ability

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• It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God

  Brigit of Kildare

  Humility, Sake, Virtue

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• Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

  Matt Haig

  Art, Hate, Advice

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• I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Hard Work, Focus, Insulting

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• Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Insult To Injury, Age, Aging

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