Bill Russell
Basketball Player, Coach
"If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you."
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Insults You
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Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you."
John Wayne
Actor, Director
"I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble."
Epictetus
Philosopher
"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting."
Russell Lynes
Photographer, Writer
"Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing."
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"Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice."
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"Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong."
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"I will not stand here to be insulted by you, hedgepig," Mangiz fumed. "Then stand somewhere else and I'll insult you there, featherbag!!"
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"I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works."
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"Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes."
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"Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve."
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"She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it."
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"No one can insult you without your permission."
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"Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you."
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"I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.' 'Station! Station!-- your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter."
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"Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish."
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