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en It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
  Henry Havelock Ellis

en There is a terrible tendency to conform today. It's choking this country. It's particularly sad because all great men and women have had one quality in common'they have dared to be different, dared to speak their minds, dared to espouse the unpopular cause.

en Every single series on our network in the last 11 years that has been successful dared to be different, dared to be unusual, unlike anything else on network television. From 'Married with Children' to 'The Simpsons' to 'In Living Color,' 'The X-Files, 'Ally McBeal,' 'King of the Hill,' each of these shows dared to be different and alternative.

en I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
  Winston Churchill

en The only regulation is that you can't have anything obscene showing on you. If [athletes] had a tattoo that was obscene but not showing, that is up to them.

en The history of our civilization, the great advances that made it possible, is not a story of cynics or doom criers. It is a gallant chronicle of the optimists, the determined people, men and women, who dreamed great dreams and dared to try whatever it took to make them come true.
  Ronald Reagan

en I gotta tell ya, with our $2.4 billion in profits last year, they gave me a great big bonus. Really, it's almost obscene.

en People are stopping me on the street, ... Most people would drive by me the last few years and give me the obscene gesture. Now they're saying, 'Hey coach, great win.'

en Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and low down, and its salient virtuosi a gang of umitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soo
  Henry Louis Mencken

en I think there [are] great economies that can be made starting with a round of base closings, ... I want the president to veto these pork-barrel spending bills which have grown to incredible obscene levels. I believe there are a number of weapons systems that have to be eliminated.
  John McCain

en FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion.

Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking
'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking.

What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye --dared not See better than their master.

Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers.

The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. --Naramy Oof Pex Tufvesson is called Mahoney in the demo world. FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion.

Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking
'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking.

What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye --dared not See better than their master.

Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers.

The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. --Naramy Oof
  Ambrose Bierce

en but have not always dared speak with such brutality.

en And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
  Homer J. Simpson

en I do not think that he is a warmonger, ... He is the only one who has dared say that Cuba has done something good.
  Fidel Castro

en The players dared me. They said I was a coward. I almost threw up.


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