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• To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  Thought Provoking, Matter, Pay

  Robert McAfee Brown (1983). “Elie Wiesel, messenger to all humanity”

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• Life is nothing in itself. It’s a place marker that proves who’s winning, and we are the winners. We are always the winners. There is nothing but the winning. Even winning means nothing. We win because it’s an insult to lose. The ends don’t justify the means. The means don’t justify the ends. There is no one to justify to. There is no justice.” ~ Durzo Blint

  Brent Weeks

  Mean, Winning, Justice

  Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.

  Laura Moriarty

  Cutting, Trying, Window

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• She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)

  Ned Vizzini

  Girl, Withering

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• We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more be exploited by imperialists not only by people with white skin, because we do not confuse exploitation or exploiters with the colour of men's skins; we do not want any exploitation in our countries, not even by black people.

  Amilcar Cabral

  Country, Fighting, Men

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• Some important ideas from the book of early Christians which is called Philokalia: From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God. The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess. The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself. The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Christian, Spiritual, Attitude

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• Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

  Edouard Manet

  Pouring, Comeback, Hail

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• The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

  Edmund Wilson

  Fall, Hands, Shots

  "Patriotic gore" by Edmund Wilson, (p. 115), 1962.

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• Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.

  Rex Stout

  Cooking, Kitchen, Female

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• Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.

  Robert Breault

  Mean, People, Laughing

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• We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Life, Land, Feet

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• Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Daughter, Mother, Book

  "Specimen Days & Collect".

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• We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . . Yet before the ashes of the council are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. . . . His presence here is . . . an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be allowed for corn?

  Red Cloud

  Country, Giving Up, Father

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• I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will not. But, at least, in time you will not remember as fiercely as you do now - and I pray that that time may be soon.

  Terence Rattigan

  Death, Insults You, Funeral

  Terence Rattigan (1977). “The Collected Plays of Terence Rattigan: The sleeping prince. Separate tables. Variation on a theme. Ross. Heart to heart”

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• Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

  William Bennett

  Years, Once Upon A Time, Stories

  William J. Bennett (1993). “Book of Virtues”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a difference between having an open mind and having holes in one's head?

  Richard Schultz

  Knowledge, Differences, Mind

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• I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

  Cleveland Amory

  Inspiration, Wells, Persons

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• Are you stupid or did you just take lessons?

  Geena Davis

  Stupid, Lessons

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• When you're as important as I am, getting your feelings hurt by me is almost an honor.

  Matt Groening

  Hurt, Feelings, Honor

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• If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.

  Matt Groening

  Funny, Humor, People

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• I don't mind sharing the blame if she'll just admit she started it.

  Matt Groening

  Mind, Blame, Ifs

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• How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?

  Matt Groening

  Trying, Bed, Breakfast

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• I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain.

  Matt Groening

  Pain, Causes, Figures

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• Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.

  Neil Gaiman

  Perfectly Good, Teeth, Arseholes

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• You take care and I hope I'll run into you - when I'm driving.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Running, Care, Driving

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