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• It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.

  George D. Prentice

  Men, Hair, Age

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• A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Receiving, Agents, Letters

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.373, Cambridge University Press

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• Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude.

  Mark Thomas

  Christian, Atheist, Religion

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• There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

  Anton Chekhov

  Integrity, Heart, Laughing

  Letter to his brother, A.P. Chekhov, October 9, 1888.

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• Compassion is for the very strong. Compassion does not come to the weak. People who are unkind, bullies, use rude language, are not strong people. They are very weak people.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Strong, Compassion

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• To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and second thoughts told me there was a reall truth therein: for first wee are a rude masse, and in the ranke of creatures, which only are, and have a dull kinde of being not yet priviledged with life, or preferred to sense or reason; next we live the life of plants, the life of animals, the life of men, and at last the life of spirits, running on in one mysterious nature those five kinds of existence, which comprehend the creatures not onely of world, but of the Universe.

  Thomas Browne

  Running, Live Life, Animal

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• To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Support, Feelings

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow, 'tis seldom or ner The two hit it off as they should The good are so harsh to the clever The clever so rude to the good!

  Elizabeth Wordsworth

  Clever, Two, People

  'Good and Clever'

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• We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.

  Seneca the Younger

  Dirty, Men, People

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• You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Dust, Wind

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 2, l. 30

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• Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Children, Manners, Courteous

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• A woman is always Right. But sometimes confused or may be misinformed or rude or stubborn or senseless or unchangeable about her opinions or even down right stupid at times but NEVER wrong... She is always Right.

  Albert Einstein

  Confused, Stupid, Stubborn

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• I sat upon a promontory,
  And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
  Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
  That the rude sea grew civil at her song;
  And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
  To hear the sea-maid's music.

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Stars, Sea

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 149

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• When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors, the Rude Boys and Nasty Girls of God realization, the men and women who are in your face, disturbing you terrifying you, until you radically awaken to who and what you really are.

  Ken Wilber

  Girl, Spiritual, Teacher

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• I'd hate to have a job where I had to be rude to people.

  Clay Aiken

  Jobs, Hate, People

  "Clay Aiken’s Incredibly Awkward Newsweek Interview". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• You know, I think I understand what you're like now. You're very beautiful and you think men are only interested in you because you're beautiful. But you want them to be interested in you because you're you. The problem is, aside from all that beauty, you're not very interesting. You're rude, you're hostile, you're sullen, you're withdrawn... oh, I know- you want someone to look past all that at the real person underneath. But the only reason anyone would bother to look past all that is because you're beautful. Ironic, isn't it? In an odd way you're your own problem.

  Jack Nicholson

  Beautiful, Real, Past

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• You’re far more likely to see a naked woman than a naked man. It’s only [seen as] rude because the rest of television is rather tame – it doesn’t actually talk about sex and our bodies and how we feel about them. I’m not out to shock.

  Russell T Davies

  Sex, Men, Naked

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• Sometimes we are outright rude when we interact with people. We meet a gay guy or a couple living together, and we think we have the obligation and right to warn them what God thinks about their sexuality on our first meeting. As if their sex life is the first thing on God's agenda.It's not.Love is. Grace is. Mercy is. Jesus is.

  Judah Smith

  Jesus, Sex, Couple

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Weather, Government, Topics

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.232, 谷月社

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• One time a reporter asked me what my worst quality was. I looked him in the eyes then punched him in the face. I kind of felt bad about it later, but he didn't need to be rude.

  Zach Braff

  Eye, Quality, Needs

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• To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Toilers of the Sea: Works Of Hugo”, p.142, 谷月社

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• Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.

  Daniel Goleman

  Fun, Coffee, Feel Good

  "Sociability: It's all in your mind". Interview with Sharon Jayson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 24, 2006.

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• There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that is ungentle or untutored or evil or mockery is as a rude stone cast at them, and they suffer all day long, or as Paul remarks they are slain every moment.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Long, Evil

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Cipango's Hinder Door”

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• I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

  Mario Cantone

  Crass, Obnoxious, Contemptuous

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• ...Many of us are perpetual reactors. We let other people determine our actions and attitudes. We let other people determine whether we will be rude or gracious, depressed or elated, critical or loyal, passive or dedicated.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Attitude, People, Loyal

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