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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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David A. Bednar
American
Clergyman
Born:
Jun 15
,
1952
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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.
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Want
Then
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When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.
Wayne Dyer
God
You
Yourself
Grace
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Free
Looking
Labeling
Others
State
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Thus
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Effects
Anyone
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When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epictetus
You
Man
Anger
Yourself
Fault
Offended
Will
Own
Study
Failings
Forget
Any
Turn
Then
Your
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes
Me
Soul
Offended
Try
High
My Soul
Reach
Offense
Whenever
Anyone
Cannot
Raise
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
Dolly Parton
Jokes
Intelligence
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Know
Also
Because
Dumb
Blonde
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
Offended
Else
Someone
Something
Something Else
Make
Imposed
Condition
Inflicted
Us
Choice
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
Moving On
Time
Change
Offended
Neither
More
Longer
Heals
Quarrels
Nor
Offender
Same
Any
Persons
Themselves
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci
Work
God
Quality
Offended
Reach
Because
Mankind
Should
Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
Alan Dershowitz
Freedom
Offended
Freedom Of Speech
Never
Being
Regarded
Justification
Should
Violence
Speech
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