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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
Miguel De Cervantes / Novelist
Women
Affront
Bears
Wells
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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
Thomas Paine / Author
Affront
Falsehood
Motivation
Serious
Treat
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
Alexander Pushkin / Author
Unrequited Love
Men
Affront
Love Is
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Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.
Claude Debussy / Composer
Affront
People
Strikes
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An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself
John Boehner / Speaker Of The United States House Of Representatives
Affront
Constitution
Law
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
Edward Abbey / Author
Affront
Charity
Spontaneous
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And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
Jean Ingelow / Poet
Affront
Heart
Pain
Years
Stir
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Every aspect of Obamacare is an affront to the very founding of this country.
Rush Limbaugh / Talk Show Host
Affront
Aspect
Country
Founding
Obamacare
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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
William F. Buckley, Jr. / Author
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Seriously
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Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you.
Giles Fraser / Priest
Affront
Dare
Liberalism
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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
George Bernard Shaw / Playwright
Affront
Sarcasm
Sarcastic
Would Be
Seriously
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Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty.
Ed Davey /
Affront
Individual Liberty
Slavery
Fundamental Principle
Principle
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The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.
Hendrik Hertzberg / Journalist
Affront
Democratic
Filibuster
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It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.
Rand Paul / United States Senator
Affront
Cia
Illegal
Republic
Senate
Spy
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Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
Richard Dawkins / Ethologist
Aesthetic
Affront
Astrology
Jingles
Beethoven
Commercial
Using
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Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.
Al Swearengen / Pimp
Affront
Bloodletting
Premises
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The biggest affront to any audience is if you feel like someone took something you love and is selling it out.
Max Joseph /
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Selling
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Change' - Obama's election mantra - is a direct, in-your-face affront to the very vision of our Founding Fathers.
Wayne Lapierre / Author
Affront
Election
Founding
Fathers
Founding Fathers
Mantra
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I cannot bear assaults of any kind, and it seems to me that the Beatles essentially were out to affront and to assault.
Glenn Gould / Pianist
Affront
Assault
Seems
Bear
Essentially
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Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. Each and every case is a both a tragedy and an affront to our values of decency and kindness.
Amber Rudd /
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Barbaric
Decency
Tragedy
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The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every private sector job in this country.
Rick Perry / Governor Of Texas
Administration
Affront
Private Sector
Obama
Freedom-Loving
Obama Administration
Private
Sector
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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
Rand Paul / United States Senator
Affront
Community
Gross
International
International Community
Invasion
Putin
Sovereignty
Ukraine
Violation
Nation
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If you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You're not really honoring the life.
Bryan Fuller / Screenwriter
Affront
Hamburgers
Mcdonalds
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Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
Jon Corzine / Former United States Senator
Affront
Deeds
Guides
Mockery
Public Servants
Words
Claim
Nation
Public
Without
Makes
Principle
Servants
To Love
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Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last a lifetime.
Peter Maurer /
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Humanity
Humiliating
Lifetime
Psychological
Torture
Treatment
Forms
Cruel
Last
Physical
Scars
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Wall Street has been beset with problems. The cycle of greed and personal aggrandizement and lifestyle grandstanding is an affront to any American.
Anthony Scaramucci /
Affront
Greed
Lifestyle
Cycle
Wall Street
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With so much of music blurring the lines between ersatz and authenticity, at least the 'Rock Band' game is a tribute to rock rather than an affront.
Carrie Brownstein / Musician
Affront
Authenticity
Tribute
Rock Band
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He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.
Ian Mcewan / Novelist
Affront
Kind
Views
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The issues we hear Donald Trump talking about are just so contrary to who we are as a people. They are an affront and an insult to our higher angels and our best selves.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Affront
Contrary
Higher
Insult
Talking
Trump
Angels
Donald
Donald Trump
Selves
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Perjury before Congress is perjury to the American people and an affront to the fundamental principles of our republic and the rule of law. Such behavior cannot be tolerated.
Paul Gosar /
Affront
Congress
Fundamental Principles
Perjury
Principles
Republic
Rule Of Law
American People
Fundamental
Rule
Tolerated
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Terrorist groups share an agenda of authoritarianism, misogyny, and intolerance. They are an affront to the common values encapsulated in the U.N. Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Antonio Guterres / Portuguese Politician
Affront
Authoritarianism
Charter
Declaration
Human Rights
Intolerance
Terrorist
Common Values
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The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.
Randa Abdel-Fattah / Writer
Affront
Competence
Explicit
Hijab
Skills
Symbols
Turbans
Jewish
Bearing
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Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.
Alexander Haig / Former United States Secretary Of State
Affront
Capable
Giving
President
President Bush
Sooner Or Later
Unprecedented
Waiting
Sooner
Brilliantly
Bush
Wait
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Any staffing changes that disproportionately cut the number of African Americans at CNN - intentionally or otherwise - are an affront to the African American journalism community and to the African American community as a whole.
Marcia Fudge /
Affront
Cnn
Journalism
Staffing
African
African Americans
Disproportionately
Intentionally
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Susan Sontag / Writer
Death
Affront
Atheism
Consolation
Denied
Dying
Mystery
Obscene
Religious
Ultimate
Anything Else
Neither
Nor
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As editor, I think we need to act more decisively on what kind of material appears on the 'Guardian'. Those who argue that this is an affront to freedom of speech miss the point. That freedom counts for little if it is used to silence others.
Katharine Viner /
Affront
Freedom Of Speech
Guardian
Silence
Appears
Counts
Editor
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I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.
Megyn Kelly / Television Host
Respect
Women
Acknowledge
Affront
Feminist
Personality
Sexy
Now
Part
Say
Paved
Publicly
Reject
Somehow
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The Obama administration's EPA ruling to cut carbon emissions at power plants is a direct affront to workers in states like Alabama, which not only rely upon coal-fired plants to generate most of their electricity but are also home to thousands of coal industry jobs.
Luther Strange /
Administration
Affront
Alabama
Carbon
Coal
Electricity
Emissions
Epa
Power Plants
Rely
Ruling
Workers
Generate
Plants
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If you have a big splash of ecstasy in your life every day you are going to teach students something finer than "buy low/sell high". Maybe you'll teach them, not by what you say but by who you are, to live their lives as a standing affront to the ravaging mercantile mentality.
Mary Rose O'reilley / Poet
Affront
Lows
Students
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By the same token, the new and stringent Ultramontanism on the Catholic Left - in which even the mildest questions about how things are working in this pontificate are denounced as treasonous disloyalty - is an affront to the open conversation for which the pope [FRANCIS] has called.
George Weigel / Author
Affront
Catholic
Pope
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If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
Bryan Fuller / Screenwriter
Affront
Honor
Preparation
Rationalize
Serving
Grinding
Hamburger
Living Thing
Mcdonald
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