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Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Progressives allege they desire to listen to diverse perspectives, but are then taken aback and affronted when they discover there are contrary opinions.
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If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this?
Iyanla Vanzant
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God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed His name to go long offended.
David Wilkerson
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I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
Taslima Nasrin
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Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
Harriet Nelson
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Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.
Patsy Cline
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To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
David A. Bednar
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If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.
Noam Chomsky
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Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.
Ezra Taft Benson
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The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.
Ezra Taft Benson
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These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way.
Marco Rubio
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If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.
Joyce Meyer
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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
Blaise Pascal
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
Salman Rushdie
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I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
Billy Connolly
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I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.
Kenny G
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.
Jerome Corsi
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I can understand that the man you told me about has offended you, and I am very annoyed that he forgot himself like that. However, you must not consider what he did as coming from him but rather as a trial which God wishes to make of your patience. This virtue will be even more a virtue in you who are more sensitive by nature and have given less cause for the offense that you have received.
Vincent de Paul
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Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.
John C. Maxwell
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If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.
Tucker Max