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Letter "O" » offends
«The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.»
«A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.»
«The Christian doctrine of sin in its classical form offends both rationalists and moralists by maintaining the seemingly absurd position that man sins inevitably and by a fateful necessity but that he is nevertheless to be held responsible for actions which are prompted by an ineluctable [inescapable] fate.»
«It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.»
«If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«But touch me, and no minister so sore; Whoever offends at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
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«I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.»
«If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«It is a public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.»
«If anyone offends you do not return tit for tat.»
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