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• Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Men, Agony

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.369

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• Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.

  Albert Ellis

  Stupid, Food, Personality

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• When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry is the one thing keeping us alive and present, so what does it mean when one of our ranks chooses to end his or her life? There's an anger beneath the grief, you know? That anger and grief, in turn, breeds other poems from those of us left behind.

  Allison Joseph

  Grief, Mean, Thinking

  Source: atticusreview.org

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• The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for what we are. We long to be understood for what we might have been had all been for the best in the best of all possible worlds and, at the same time, to be forgiven for what we are.

  Jo Coudert

  Long, World, Might

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• The bravery founded upon the hope of recompense, upon the fear of punishment, upon the experience of success, upon rage, upon ignorance of dangers, is common bravery, and does not merit the name. True bravery proposes a just end, measures the dangers, and, if it is necessary, the affront, with coldness.

  Francois de la Noue

  Ignorance, Punishment, Names

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• And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Real, Moving

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• Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

  Jose Marti

  Justice, Soul, Needs

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• The idea that I hear from the right wing in the last few decades, is that any sort of sacrifice is an affront to my liberty as an American to be a pig the way I want to.

  Bill Maher

  Sacrifice, Pigs, Wings

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• Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Modesty, Painting

  Denis Thomas, Pablo Picasso (1975). “Picasso and his art”

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• Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Appreciation, Tolerance, Mood

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• If you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You're not really honoring the life.

  Bryan Fuller

  Mcdonalds, Hamburgers, Bits

  "‘Hannibal’ producer Bryan Fuller on cannibal cuisine, renewal and more". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 19, 2013.

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• Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Religious, Reality, Tolerance

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1897). “Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction”

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• Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Exercise, Body, Conscious

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• It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Real, Mistake

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.913, RosettaBooks

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• When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that Black people have never been involved in exploring the heavens, but this is not so. Ancient African empires - Mali, Songhai, Egypt - had scientists, astronomers. The fact is that space and its resources belong to all of us, not to any one group.

  Mae Jemison

  Science, Egypt, Space

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• The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Filibuster, Democratic, Norm

  "Ups and Downs" by Hendrik Hertzberg, www.newyorker.com. November 14, 2005.

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• Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Women, Bears, Wells

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1749). “Don Quixote”, p.241

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• Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization; an insult to the principles of our Declaration of Independence; a bane of our national spirit; and a stench in the nostrils of Almighty God.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Character, Civilization, Abortion

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• Rebukes are easy from our betters,
  From men of quality and letters;
  But when low dunces will affront,
  What man alive can stand the brunt?

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Quality, Alive

  Jonathan Swift, “The Sick Lion And The Ass”

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• The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to logic, common sense and the 5000 year human struggle for aesthetic taste.

  Peter McWilliams

  Struggle, Years, Law

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.

  Megyn Kelly

  Sexy, Personality, Feminist

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• Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.

  Stephen Leacock

  Men, Sight, Giving

  Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.106, McClelland & Stewart

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• Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

  Todd Akin

  Determination, Government, Self

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• As Summer into Autumn slips
  And yet we sooner say
  "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest
  We turn the sun away,
  
  And almost count it an Affront
  The presence to concede
  Of one however lovely, not
  The one that we have loved -
  
  So we evade the charge of Years
  On one attempting shy
  The Circumvention of the Shaft
  Of Life's Declivity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Autumn, Years

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.285, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to Muslim sensibilities.

  Margo Kingston

  Sight, Soldier, Dashboards

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