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• Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie is really just sort of defining and figuring out why exactly you felt certain things when you read it.

  Kristen Stewart

  Reading, Feelings, Levels

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• Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.

  John Bunyan

  Temptation, Looks, Look Up

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• The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Girl, Sweet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.310, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.

  Mason Cooley

  Baby, Self, Resentment

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• If your master is surly, from getting up early
  (And tempers are short in the morning),
  An inopportune joke is enough to provoke
  Him to give you, at once, a month's warning.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Morning, Up Early, Giving

  Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert (2008). “The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.844, Penguin UK

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• Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Covered Up, People

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• As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt.

  George Amos Dorsey

  Men, Quality, Flesh

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• Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Deceit, Distrust

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• Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as to leave me at a loss of . . . words.

  Julian Whitaker

  Loss, Inspire, Facts

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• It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Praise, Admirer, Commit

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• The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

  George Santayana

  Nature, Firsts, Commentary

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.4, Рипол Классик

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• Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Enemy, Different

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

  Jeremy Renner

  Thinking, Cinema, Stories

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Fun, Thought Provoking, Woven

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• Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.

  Charlotte Forten Grimke

  Needs, Sensible

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• The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Miracle, Doe

  Edward Gibbon (1875). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.263

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• This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong. Ultimately, it provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack. It is a language of demands.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, People, Demand

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• Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

  Andrew Pyper

  Horror, Contact, Humans

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• Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the groundlings, among the beggars and rakers of the garbage, profound passion is enacted. And the circumstances that provoke it, however trivial or mean, are no measure of its power. In the present instance the stage is a scrubbed gun deck, and one of the external provocations a man-of-war's-man's spilled soup.

  Herman Melville

  War, Mean, Passion

  Herman Melville (2016). “Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories”, p.177, Penguin

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• I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.

  Crystal Reed

  Character, Directors, Answers

  "Tyler Posey and Crystal Reed Exclusive Interview Teen Wolf (MTV’s Reboot Airing in 2011)". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 19, 2010.

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• I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

  Linda Sue Park

  Book, Thinking, Want

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• Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about the aims higher education ought to aspire to and how best to achieve them.

  David M. Brown

  America, Thought Provoking, Ambitious

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• Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.

  Susie Orbach

  Views, Perspective, Political

  "Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say". www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

  Kim Harrison

  Reading, Thought Provoking, Plot

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• All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you'll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that wields surveillance powers if you wish to be deemed free of wrongdoing. This is a deal that invites passivity, obedience, and conformity. The safest course, the way to ensure being “left alone,” is to remain quiet, unthreatening, and compliant.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Worry, Support, Challenges

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