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• You are literally too stupid to insult.

  Ed Helms

  Stupid, Hangover

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• I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.

  Rachael Ray

  Writing, Men, Hot

  "Anthony Bourdain Roast: Star Gets Bashed By Rachael Ray, Guy Fieri And More At New York Wine & Food Festival (NSFW)" by Carey Polis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.

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• To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

  George Washington

  Flags, Force, Naval

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.220

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• I want to live in a world where 'normal' is an insult.

  Misha Collins

  World, Want, Normal

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• If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult . . . I apologize.

  Edward Abbey

  Apologizing, I Apologize, Stills

  Edward Abbey (1988). “One Life at a Time, Please”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Life without music would be an intolerable insult.

  Edward Abbey

  Would Be, Life Without Music, Without Music

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Political, Honor, Progress

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• Uninvited criticism is insult.

  John L'Heureux

  Editors, Criticism, Critics

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• Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Government, Liberty

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.23, RosettaBooks

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• Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

  William Wordsworth

  William Wordsworth (1814). “The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem”, p.112

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• We believed - and I personally still believe - that the so called Voice of God narration, ubiquitous in documentaries destined for PBS, is insulting to the audience. If you believe in the intelligence of your audience, you don't need to tell them what to think and how to process the material they're seeing.

  Jayne Loader

  Believe, Thinking, Pbs

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• The nuns taught us there are two ways through life... the way of Nature... and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy... when all the world is shining around it... when love is smiling through all things.

  Terrence Malick

  Love Is, Two, Shining

  "Fictional character: Mrs. O'Brien". "The Tree of Life", May 2011.

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• He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Energy, May

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• People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

  Mike Tyson

  Mistake, People, Boxing

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• The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin had no religion at all; and it would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief.

  Theodore Parker

  Religious, Men, Lines

  "The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Historic Americans".

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• When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing - a vice little known heretofore in the American army - is growing into fashion. Let the men and officers reflect "that we can not hope for the blessing of heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly."

  George Washington

  Fashion, Sorry, Army

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• Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be a retard summit at the White House.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Taken, White

  "Will Sarah Palin call on Rush Limbaugh to apologize for saying liberal activists are ‘retards’?" by Matt Corley, thinkprogress.org. February 3, 2010.

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• I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Stories, Pages, Way

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• The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Blood, Sauce, Looks

  "War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman".

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• You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.

  Patricia Richardson

  Cloning, Argument, Strongest

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• Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

  Frank Zappa

  Hopeless, Kind, Literacy

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• When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult.

  James Meredith

  Rights, Citizens, American Citizens

  James Meredith (2012). “A Mission from God: A Memoir and Challenge for America”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Irony, Compliment, Form

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.52

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• He doesn't get ulcers - he gives them.

  Henny Youngman

  Giving, Ulcers

  Henny Youngman (1994). “Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks”, Outlet

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• He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the

  H. G. Wells

  Struggle, Sweat, Verbs

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