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• We respect women and don't insult them by saying all they care about is reproductive rights. All issues are women's issues.

  Carly Fiorina

  Rights, Issues, Care

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• Let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don't trust the media. This is not a cage match. And, you look at the questions - "Donald Trump, are you a comic-book villain?" "Ben Carson, can you do math?" "John Kasich, will you insult two people over here?" "Marco Rubio, why don't you resign?" "Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?" How about talking about the substantive issues the people care about?

  Ted Cruz

  Book, Math, Media

  Ted Cruz at the third GOP debate at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2015.

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• Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

  Margaret Atwood

  Revenge, Civilization, Debt

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• I didn't want to be on screen not nailing an American accent. It's an insult to an American! There are plenty of great American actors who can already do an American accent, so me, coming in and stealing their roles, the one thing I have to perfect is the accent. So for years I practiced. And we're lucky because the whole world is raised on a library of American movies. I would pretend to be Jim Carrey, and, I say Robin Williams now because he's in my mind, but those actors really inspired us to be crazy and be theatrical.

  Brenton Thwaites

  Crazy, Perfect, Mind

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• Reclaiming the word fat was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.

  Beth Ditto

  Emotional, Empowering, Progress

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2007.

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• I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

  Toni Morrison

  People, Racist, Exclusion

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• Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.

  Olivia Munn

  Trying, Ends, Please

  Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com.

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• It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.

  Upton Sinclair

  Apology, Thinking, Insult To Injury

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• I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Dental Floss, Teeth

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• Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

  Kathy Reichs

  Dignity, Humans, Ultimate

  Kathy Reichs (2006). “Break No Bones: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.

  Nora Roberts

  Men, Ideas, Two

  Nora Roberts (2008). “The Pagan Stone”, p.201, Penguin

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• We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.

  John Lithgow

  Should Have, Knowing, Charity

  Source: www.npr.org

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• And please, don't take offense. It's not an insult if it's true. - Devyn

  Gena Showalter

  Please, Offense, Ifs

  Gena Showalter (2009). “Seduce the Darkness”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Offending, People, Nerd

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.33, Random House

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• The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Loss, Sarcasm, Mind

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• However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.

  Herman Melville

  Baby, Men, Sea

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.190, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• And as for you Agent Pallas – man-to-man, if you ever insult my girl on national television again, I’ll…” he stopped. Everyone in the room waited, hanging. Jack raised an eyebrow. “Yes?” Collin turned to Cameron with a look of astonishment. “I’ve got nothing. I had this whole exit speech going and I was gonna end with some big macho threat but when I got there, it was like – bleh – nothing. That’s a pisser.” He appeared disgusted with himself, then shrugged it off. “Oh well. Catch you guys later.” He strode out without a second glance.

  Julie James

  Girl, Men, Eyebrows

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• Naturally, Coach Hedge went ballistic; but Percy found it hard to take the satyr seriously since he was barely five feet tall. "Never in my life!" Coach bellowed, waving his bat and knocking over a plate of apples. "Against the rules! Irresponsible!" "Coach," Annabeth said, "it was an accident. We were talking, and we fell asleep." "Besides," Percy said, "you're starting to sound like Terminus." Hedge narrowed his eyes. "Is that an insult, Jackson? 'Cause I'll—I'll terminus you, buddy!

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Talking, Apples

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• Coach," Annabeth said, "it was an accident. We were talking, and we fell asleep." "Besides," Percy said, "you're starting to sound like Terminus." Hedge narrowed his eyes. "Is that an insult, Jackson? 'Cause I'll-I'll Terminus you, buddy!

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Talking, Sound

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• Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

  Laurie R. King

  Mind, Argument, Small Minds

  Laurie R. King (2016). “The Mary Russell Series 9-Book Bundle: O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, The Language of Bees, The God of the Hive, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows, Dreaming Spies”, p.273, Bantam

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• These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to want to manage other people's affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one's dignity. To choose always the hardest.

  Mother Teresa

  Mistake, Humble, Humility

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• However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will never even be offered life in the first place?

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Complaining, Dull

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• You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.

  William Goldman

  Father, Wonderful, Dare

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Envy, Accepted, Masters

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• Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.

  Dorothea Brande

  Running, Rejection, Feelings

  Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.20, Lulu.com

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