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• Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

  J. K. Rowling

  Clever, Fear, Games

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• There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Smile, Other Worlds, Deep Thought

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• Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily - weak people, in other words.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Heart, People

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• We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Disease, Rage

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Sweet, Revenge, Objects

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.358

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• If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of the anointed often see these constraints as only arbitrary impositions, things from which they-and we all-can be 'liberated.' The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions-the vision-which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback.

  Thomas Sowell

  Civilization, Vision, Arbitrary

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• Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

  Omar N. Bradley

  War, Political, Guilt

  "Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words" by Peace Pilgrim, (p. 113), 1992.

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• The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection of living organisms into the blood, into a medium not intended for them, may provoke redoubtable manifestations of the gravest morbid phenomena.

  Antoine Bechamp

  May, Serious, Morbid

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• Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own [will], is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

  Paul the Apostle

  Believe, Jealous, Love Is

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• The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Laos, Communist

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “At War with Asia”, p.90, AK Press

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• Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

  Michel Foucault

  Hypocrisy, Facts, Modern

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.47, Vintage

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• Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He has exerted the vengeance of history upon the emperors, but has veiled the conspiracies against them, and the incorrigible corruption of the people which probably provoked their most atrocious cruelties. Tyranny can scarcely be practised upon a virtuous and wise people.

  John Adams

  Wise, People, Republic

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.422

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• The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider... abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Fire, Wrath, Spiders

  "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (sermon), Enfield, Conn., 8 July 1741

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• The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Crush, Fire, Flames

  "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". Book by Jonathan Edwards, July 8, 1741.

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• I'M SYMPATHETIC, because I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what happened. Maybe Darren Wilson acted within his rights and duty as an officer of the law and killed Michael Brown in self defense like any of us would in the circumstance. Now he has to fear the backlash against himself and his loved ones when he was only doing his job. What a horrible thing to endure. OR maybe he provoked Michael and ignited the series of events that led to him eventually murdering the young man to prove a point.

  Benjamin Watson

  Jobs, Men, Self

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.15, NavPress

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• Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Hate, Waiting, Needs

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.939, Library of America

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• The real leaders intend to do definitely that good task for which a pretender has provoked them by saying that it can't be done, but the good number of pretenders tend to do only that job for which a real leader has cautioned them by showing the things that should not be done.

  Anuj

  Jobs, Real, Numbers

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• Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming helplessness one moment and the utter self-reliance the next that baffle us, that seem most difficult to understand. These are the qualities that make her a mystery, the qualities that provoked Freud to complain, "What does a woman want?

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Children, Often Is, Self

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• Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a stream, or choose a sentimental book! We are constantly building and unbuilding ourselves.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, People, Sensual

  Gustave Flaubert (1967). “Intimate notebook, 1840-1841”

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• Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.

  P. D. James

  Peculiar, Realization, Might

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• The doctors advised me not to have even one. My health was still not good, and they said that pregnancy might be fatal. If they hadn't said that to me, maybe I wouldn't have got married. But that diagnosis provoked me, it infuriated me. I answered, 'Why do you think I'm getting married if not to have children? I don't want to hear that I can't have children; I want you to tell me what I have to do in order to have children!'

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Pregnancy, Thinking

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old to be precise. These experiences opened my mind to the idea of a Creator and that caring for other living things was a Christian duty. My parents were not strongly religious at the time and when I announced at that youthful age that I wanted to be a priest, it not unnaturally provoked some incredulity, even mirth. In the same year, I became a vegetarian, which--for family and friends--was even more vexing.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Religious, Caring

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• Encircled and provoked, Russia is once again turning into a mighty monolithic defense wall. Its people are ready! They want peace, above anything else. But if they'd have to fight for their own survival, and for the survival of the world, they will.

  Andre Vltchek

  Wall, Fighting, Russia

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Sometimes I walk into a situation and I know somebody is going to provoke me - not maybe, I know he will provoke me - I know he will provoke me! And there are times when I simply refuse to be provoked. And the other times you have to use that superior knowledge to carry on at work without distraction, and don't allow yourself to be distracted. I laugh a lot inside and outside, and at myself sometimes.

  Kofi Annan

  Laughing, Use, Sometimes

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• To raise children you must have love and a wholesome understanding, and that is why a parent should pray fervently for their own salvation, so that their own sin does not get in the way. We can be saved from irritation and anger! Children can quickly sense if their parents are irritated, and then the children can be easily provoked and react stubbornly.

  Esther Smith

  Children, Irritation, Parent

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