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• If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

  Juvenal

  Insults You, Insulted, Ought

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• My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

  George Washington

  Brave, Enemy, Satisfaction

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• I'm not making fun of it because I want to make fun of it. I'm making fun of it so I feel better. I don't want people to think any time there's a tragedy that I'm going to make a joke about it. It's only funny to me because it's personal to me. And that was always the goal. It wasn't to be this insult person.

  Pete Davidson

  Fun, Feel Better, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping with it - and another is to just ignore it.

  Dan Fox

  Thinking, Laughing, Laugh At Yourself

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• Donald Trump insult women. We've seen him rate women on their appearance, ranking them from one to ten. We've seen him embarrass women on TV and on Twitter. We saw him after the first debate spend nearly a week denigrating a former Miss Universe in the harshest, most personal terms. So yes, this is who Donald Trump is.

  Hillary Clinton

  Missing, Debate, Appearance

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.

  Beth Ditto

  Fun

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The way the Democrats try to dispirit everybody and impugn people is basically insult their intelligence. If you're not Democrat, if you're not liberal, you're an idiot. You're kook. Something's wrong with you.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Trying, Idiot

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or generations later.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Generations, May

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2011). “Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War”, p.131, Granta Books

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• I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Crush, Errors, Delight

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

  Margaret Deland

  Book, Sapphires, Reader

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• my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

  Merrill Markoe

  Mother, Taste, Facts

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• When I worked with Chevy Chase, Michael Ritchie would say, "Just ad lib and try to break me up. Just insult me. Anything." When we were doing his close-up, or when my back was to the camera, I would come up with jokes or quips or anything, to get a real reaction out of him. He was smart enough to know that was gold. So it was great fun working with him and Michael, and getting to see how the two worked together. I think Fletch and Clark Griswold were Chevy's two best roles. He's so incredibly talented and still vastly underused.

  Tim Matheson

  Fun, Real, Smart

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• When I visited North Korea in November 2014, is that Kim Jong-un is not merely the head of state of the DPRK - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea - he's also their deity. So, when you insult him as the head of state, you're also insulting the deity, which of course the regime plays to a fare-thee-well to the domestic audience there.

  James R. Clapper

  Insulting, November, Democratic

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Who controls the images? Ultimately, we don't control the images. This is the minimum we're allowed to ask for: we don't get to control most of the media. We fight to have some say in the ways we're represented. At the bare minimum, don't insult us in person. That's all we ask! Let us at least be able to function freely in the world.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Fighting, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in society has been very accurate or healthy. I don't think we've come up with ways to tell it that don't insult people or hit them in the wrong way. Part of the problem is that most people don't really understand what slavery was anyway. Most white people didn't own slaves. Slavery was a way of life, just like driving cars is a way of life now. It doesn't mean that it was right.

  James McBride

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What I think is that the F-word is basically just a convenient nasty-sounding word that we tend to use when we would really like to come up with a terrific-ally witty insult, the kind Winston Churchill always came up with when enormous women asked him stupid questions at parties.

  Dave Barry

  Witty, Stupid, Party

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.35, Ballantine Books

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• I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language by testing out my pronunciations

  Lana Wood

  Trying, Want, Language

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• I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.

  Jean Cocteau

  Loyalty, Children, Light

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• The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

  William Blake

  Art, Ignorant, Individual

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.561, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and have your director literally act out the part for you is sort of discouraging in a way. It's a very Eastern European thing to do - a lot of directors that I worked with in Russia did that as well. And, I never took that as an insult, as many actors tend to do. To me, I think it's just offering a certain energy - offering their flavor - and, instead of trying to sort of decode and communicate it to you, they just show you their flavor of what it should be.

  Jon Bernthal

  Reading, Thinking, Russia

  "BWW EXCLUSIVE: Jon Bernthal Talks WALKING DEAD Season Premiere, Theatre Background & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 16, 2011.

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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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• You should not bear insults.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Bears, Should

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• As long as any pro wrestling we see on the TV screen doesn't insult my intelligence and can continually use common sense, basic logic and the presentation, I am pretty cool with it.

  Jim Ross

  Wrestling, Long, Common Sense

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• I went to Jerusalem, the dead sea, it was just amazing. Because what we see in the TV, I'm sorry to say it, I don't want to insult nobody, but a lot of the image that we see from the middle east in Canada - It's sad to say but it's always bad stuff. I was thinking coming here it would be a lot of military, security, everybody would be a little more on the edge, but I see it's amazing. It feels a little bit similar to Miami.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Sorry, Military, Thinking

  Source: www.bloodyelbow.com

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• You're screening your calls?" "Why not? It saves me from conversations with idiots." "Is that an insult?" His voice dropped into a deep growl. "You're not an idiot," I told him. "You're just a deadly psychopath with a god complex.(...)

  Ilona Andrews

  Voice, Why Not, Idiot

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.102, Penguin

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