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• An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which is bound to amaze the reader and the scholar. Who was Shakespeare?

  Steven Berkoff

  Analysis, Controversial, Interpretation

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• I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by incorporating parasite meanings. Which suspends meaning while perpetually dispatching you toward interpretation, urging you beyond dogmatism, beyond doctrine, beyond ideology, beyond authority.

  Sherrie Levine

  Art, Giving, Doubt

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• Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's as thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite. The Icon Thief is a wild ride through a fascinating and morally complex world, a puzzle Duchamp himself would have applauded. Bravo.

  Jesse Kellerman

  Icons, Thought Provoking, Roaring

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• Music should use everything. The sadness of life and the fun of life. Anything that provokes a sound that is exciting is good.

  Daniel Humair

  Fun, Sadness, Sound

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• I have argued that philosophy doesn't begin in wonder or in the fact that things are, it begins in a realization that things are not what they might be. It begins with a sense of a lack, of something missing, and that provokes a series of questions.

  Simon Critchley

  Philosophy, Missing, Realization

  "Demand Everything!". Interview with Anders Gullestad, www.truth-out.org. May 15, 2010.

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• I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.

  Thomas Keller

  Believe, Inspiration, Thought Provoking

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• The Playtex Secrets survey truly uncovered some thought-provoking and provocative secrets of real American housewives. In fact, many of the findings would make great fodder for a storyline on the show!

  Alfre Woodard

  Real, Thought Provoking, Secret

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• Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.

  Barbra Streisand

  Art, Thinking, Challenges

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• What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

  Samuel Johnson

  Laughter, Pardon, Said

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.208

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• When we have many things within ourselves which are neither known nor accepted, then such things complicate our lives horrifyingly, and in fact provoke all sorts of situations which could be avoided through knowledge of ourselves.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Life, Awakening, Facts

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• To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted. Even things in themselves not positively advantageous, sometimes become so, by their tendency to provoke exertion. Every new scene, which is opened to the busy nature of man to rouse and exert itself, is the addition of a new energy to the general stock of effort.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Effort, Mind

  United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1791). “Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on the Subject of Manufactures: Presented to the House of Representatives, December 5, 1791”, p.12

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• A truly successful army is one that, because of its strength and ability and dedication, will not be called upon to fight, for no one will dare to provoke it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Fighting, Successful, Army

  RONALD REAGAN: (1984). “A MAN TRUE TO HIS WORD”

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• Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

  Thomas Gray

  Dust, Voice, Honor

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.41-4.

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• If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

  Lars von Trier

  Stronger, Want, Should

  Interview With Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.

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• The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes his idea of the world of morals and of life upon those whose faith he ruins. He works at his age old task, the annilation of the religion of Christ.

  Bernard Lazare

  Ideas, Catholic, Age

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• If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Humility, Conceited

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hate, Silly, Men

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Believe, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

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• Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

  C. S. Lewis

  Exercise, Thought Provoking, Rebel

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Thought Provoking, Stronger

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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• What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going to see the larger destabilization of the Middle East, the rise of extremism, and we're going to wonder... Why didn't we at least try to force a political solution - at an acceptable cost to us, because no one is saying we should send in ground troops - and if we did it would be worse than doing nothing... If we do not act, we are going to look back and wonder why we didn't.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Thought Provoking, Political, Trying

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• In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side by side and intermarry for long periods of time until it becomes valuable to exploit the division. And yes, the division's there because you can always revert back to history, you can always inflame it, but it is manipulated for political ends.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Ethnicity, Long, Thought Provoking

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• Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

  Gavin Newsom

  Thought Provoking, Trying, Limits

  Twitter post from Jul 07, 2016

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• There's no such thing as no chance.

  Henry Ford

  Challenges, Inspire, Chance

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• No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That's the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers.

  Jack Welch

  Jobs, Challenges, Inspire

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