- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Distasteful Quotes
On drawing the line at what's merely unpleasant.
There's a real tension in these lines between tolerating what's distasteful and actually enjoying it — one voice defends allowing odious content on free-speech grounds without endorsing it, while another simply admits theological debate has stopped appealing to them. See also Able.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
All theological lore is growing distasteful to me. All my recent excursions into such fields proves it to be a shifting, hypothetical, doubt-fostering, dusty, and unprofitable study.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting to me that apparently distasteful comments from the Right against weak targets tend to draw a lot less media fire than apparently distasteful comments from the Left against hard targets. That's one of the threads that runs through the show and that people hopefully pick up on.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when you do that.
- Canada
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I would go over to friends' houses, and they would be zoning out to Mario Brothers, I just found it the most distasteful thing.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.
- Exploits
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis had enormous talent, and Elvis was the major contributor to an entirely new genre of music. Sometimes their exploits were distasteful to people, but they left behind an enormous body of work that endures.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020