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Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.Amit Kalantri
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The Christian God seemed the most offensive to people precisely because he was the most godlike. He was too perfect even to be coaxed by human efforts, and therefore sent his son to do the job.Criss Jami
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Every exceptional bias against Christianity I find to be evidence for its validity.Criss Jami
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To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is.Israelmore Ayivor
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Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.Criss Jami
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I suspect that 'Kindness and Cruelty' and 'Mercy and Justice' all have secret affairs, as though they rendezvous only within certain sophisticated souls: those who hate being offensive, but love telling the truth.Criss Jami
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This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.Criss Jami
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I'm not offended until you think I'm offended.Criss Jami
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Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an obsessive, paranoid personality, with Asperger’s syndrome, a bad stutter, unstable moods, and episodes of psychotic mania and depression. But now he’s subject to Harvard’s speech codes that prohibit any “disrespect for the dignity of others”; any violations will get him in trouble with Harvard’s Inquisition (the ‘Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion’). Newton also wants to publish Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, to explain the laws of motion governing the universe. But his literary agent explains that he can’t get a decent book deal until Newton builds his ‘author platform’ to include at least 20k Twitter followers — without provoking any backlash for airing his eccentric views on ancient Greek alchemy, Biblical cryptography, fiat currency, Jewish mysticism, or how to predict the exact date of the Apocalypse.Newton wouldn’t last long as a ‘public intellectual’ in modern American culture. Sooner or later, he would say ‘offensive’ things that get reported to Harvard and that get picked up by mainstream media as moral-outrage clickbait. His eccentric, ornery awkwardness would lead to swift expulsion from academia, social media, and publishing. Result? On the upside, he’d drive some traffic through Huffpost, Buzzfeed, and Jezebel, and people would have a fresh controversy to virtue-signal about on Facebook. On the downside, we wouldn’t have Newton’s Laws of Motion.Geoffrey Miller
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Like some of the rest of us, she never reflected how balefully her evil mood might operate; and that all things work for good in the end, will not cover those by whom come the offenses. Another night's rest, it is true, sent the evil mood to sleep again for a time, but did not exorcise it; for there are demons that go not out without prayer, and a bad temper is one of them--a demon as contemptible, mean-spirited, and unjust, as any in the peerage of hell--much petted, nevertheless, and excused, by us poor lunatics who are possessed by him.George MacDonald
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Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.Criss Jami
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Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.Gretchen Rubin
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Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.Criss Jami
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Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was usually safer not to reply at all.Agatha Christie
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Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is not written on my face.Michael Bassey Johnson
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Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn't change the fact that you can be downright mean and offensive, Kaladin Stormblessed.Brandon Sanderson
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Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended.Criss Jami
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Well, I’m heading home, ” Ibaraki announced as they were leaving the restaurant.“ Oh, yeah? About time, ” Yuichi commented. Ibaraki: “Man, you’re so cold. Aren’t you picking up my love beams?”“ Sorry, Yu, but I’m not into BL! I hope you’ll consider a pure and true hetero relationship! ” Mutsuko said cheerfully. Yuichi took a conspicuous step back. Ibaraki: "Huh? Hey, don’t take that seriously! .Tsuyoshi Fujitaka
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Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.Criss Jami
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It's not cold in here, you're just dying.Sarah Silverman
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It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.Wayne Gerard Trotman
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If a couple of gay guys want to throw the gayest, most fabulous wedding of all time, the only way it should offend you is if you weren’t invited.Orlando Winters
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A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.Jo Godwin
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We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.Unknown
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I don't say things to be offensive I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.Marilyn Manson
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.Ralph Peters