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• Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

  David Adam

  Reading, Mean, Men

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• So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Thinking, Long

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

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• One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what you’re afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be?

  Leon Uris

  Sacrifice, Unique, Genius

  Leon Uris (1989). “Mitla Pass”, Bantam

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• Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death, Mean, Enemy

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• There live a great man named Joe
  who was belittled by a loudmouth foe.
  While his rival would taunt and tease
  Joe silently bore the stings.
  And then fought like gladiator in the ring.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Rivals, Tease

  "The Soul of a Butterfly". Book by Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, 2004.

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• I love you, I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm.

  William Goldman

  Love You, Men, Sea

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.44, A&C Black

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• It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;
  To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,
  Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity,
  Or draw a line daring them to cross.

  Anne Spencer

  Women, Humanity, Weakness

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• The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he know he is right, who can defy those in authority over him, who can take punishment and prison and remain steadfast-that is a man of courage. The fellow whom you taunt as a 'slacker' because he refuses to turn murderer-he needs courage. But do you need much courage just to obey orders, to do as you are told and to fall in line with thousands of others to the tune of general approval and the Star Spangled Banner?

  Alexander Berkman

  Country, Stars, War

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.

  Walt Whitman

  Joy, Madness, Hours

  Walt Whitman (1947). “Leaves of Grass”

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• In a radio interview [Ted] Cruz compared [Donald]Trump`s behavior to schoolyard children throwing taunts at each other, vowing not to take part.

  Chris Hayes

  Children, Radio, Interviews

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When you go to plant a flag on the visiting team's field, it's a form of taunting, .. What message are you sending when you spear it into the turf of your defeated opponent?.

  Brad Davis

  Team, Flags, Opponents

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• In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely this reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Light, Giving, Lovely

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ― a phantom life, taunting her from just out of reach. A sense would come over her while she was drawing or walking, and once while she was dancing slow and close with Kaz, that she was supposed to be doing something else with her hands, with her legs, with her body. Something else. Something else. Something else.

  Laini Taylor

  Hands, Drawing, Dancing

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• this is one of my absolute favourite quotes its from the evernight series (stargazer) charity to Balthazar You remind me of too much. you remind me of what it felt like to be alive, to think of sunlight as something you could enjoy instead of something you could bare, to breath and have it change you, refresh you, awaken you, instead of just churning on and on some old useless habit that taunts you with what you use to be, to sigh and feel relief, to cry and let your sadness pass, instead of having it all bottled up inside of you forever and ever until you don't know who you are any more.

  Claudia Gray

  Sadness, Thinking, Forever

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• I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.

  Lennox Lewis

  Kids, East London, Boxing

  "Lennox Lewis Answers Your Questions". "Talking Point: Forum", news.bbc.co.uk. December 21, 1999.

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• Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either

  Martin Luther

  Egypt, Names, Creating

  Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: Free will and salvation”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.

  Susan Orlean

  Real, School, Names

  "@leapofFaith" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 22, 2011.

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• I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Scythes, Reaper, Bores

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• Reluctantly, I pulled out my necklace and showed it to them. Samuel frowned. The little figure was stylized; I suppose he couldn't tell what it was at first. A dog?" asked Zee, staring at my necklace. A lamb," I said defensively, tucking it safely back under my shirt. "Because one of Christ's names is "The Lamb of God."" Samuel's shoulders shook slightly. "I can see it now, Mercy holding a roomful of vampire at bay with her glowing sheep." I gave his shoulder a hard push, aware of the heat climbing to my cheeks, but it didn't help. He sang in a soft taunting voice, "Mercy had a little lamb.

  Patricia Briggs

  Dog, Names, Voice

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.129, Penguin

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• Well, if you’re through taunting poor Mike, are you ready to go? (Nick) You give me any lip, little boy, and there won’t be enough left of you to run through a sieve. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Boys, Giving

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.89, Macmillan

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• ISIS continues to taunt the United States. They started off on a small area. They are now in 28 countries. Twenty eight countries. Think of it. This is during Hillary Clinton's tenure.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thinking, Eight

  "Donald Trump reacts to terror attacks". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. September 20, 2016.

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• What's this about?" "Finally. Interest," was the only response. "If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had ordered hundreds of blow-up dolls and placed them throughout the fortress, all because Paris had foolishly complained about the lack of female companionship in town. The plastic "ladies" had stared our from every corner, their wide eyes and let-me-suck-you mouths taunting everyone who passed them. Things like that happened when Torin was bored.

  Gena Showalter

  Eye, Blow, Paris

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.18, HQN Books

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• Watch it, minx," he warned with a lift of his brow. "If you intend to taunt me for every foolish statement I've made in my life, you'll force me to play Rockton and lock you up in my dark, forbidding manor while I have my wicked way with you." That sounds perfectly awful,"she said gazing at the man she loved. "How soon can we start?

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Dark, Men, Play

  Sabrina Jeffries (2015). “The Truth About Lord Stoneville”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

  Katherine Applegate

  Hate, Eye, Faces

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• Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  War, Arrows, Deeds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.195, Library of America

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