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• Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
  -- Sam Brown, "The Washington Post", January 26, 1977...
• There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth
  but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect. -- Machiavelli...
• CAUTION! Sensitive SysOp - DO NOT offend !!!! :->
• Didn't mean to offend you. You didn't, yet. -- Ensign Mendon and Worf, "A Matter of Honor", stardate 42506.
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• You offend Shai-Hulud by sheathing your crysknife without having drawn blood.