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Letter "O" » offend
«This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!»
Author: Peter Stone
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offend
«What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
ceases, expression, Freedom of expression, offend, offending, offends, without expression
«This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
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casting, characters, Characters in, doubts, excepting, fairy, fiction, folk, imaginary, imaginary being, offend, thereof, The characters, This is a, unwise
«Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! / Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.»
«You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour.»
«When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred...»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Confidence
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commence, commenced, commences, cowardice, disarm, disarmed, disarming, disarms, distrust, distrusts, generate, generating, offend
«When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Cowardice,
Faith
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conclusion, cowardliness, distrust, Hate You, induce, offend, showing, subjects
«We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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offend
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