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• Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hate, Crazy, Anger

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

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• Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, War, Men

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• Trouble is another word for fate; what troubles us the most is what we are fated to one day face. What troubles us in youth will return at each crossroad in life because it secretly seeks to provoke a deep awakening to the unique way that we are intended to live.

  Michael Meade

  Yoga, Fate, Unique

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• We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Planets, Connected

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• If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe of imbroidered worke, set with orient pearles, and garnished with great diversitie of rare and costly jewels? The delight is great but the use greater, and joyned often with necessitie.

  John Gerard

  Beauty, Home, Men

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• The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself.

  Billy Mills

  Winning, Greatness, Challenges

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• Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

  Lord Acton

  Justice, Diversity, Challenges

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• Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Important, Sometimes

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• Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

  Max McKeown

  Thought Provoking, Following, Industry

  Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.76, Pearson UK

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• This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke.

  Jane Grigson

  Food, Garden, Vegetables

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Fruit Book”, p.27, U of Nebraska Press

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• My hope is to shed light, provoke thought, entertain, and move through dance.

  Dwight Rhoden

  Dance, Moving, Light

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• Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

  James Gleick

  Ideas, People, World

  James Gleick (2011). “Chaos: Making a New Science”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Romance, Looks, Mouths

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2014). “Hush, Hush Parts 1 & 2: includes Hush, Hush and Crescendo”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.

  Steve Pavlina

  Meaningful, Goal, Thought Provoking

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• I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

  George Thorndike Angell

  Time, Kindness, Animal

  George Thorndike Angell (1884). “Autobiographical Sketches and Personal Recollections”

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• For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

  Marcel Proust

  Powerful, Doctors, Ideas

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• Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

  Anita Roddick

  Success, Business, Thinking

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• The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

  Edward Norton

  Narrative, Documentaries, Kind

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• Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Winter, Snow, Childhood

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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• Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

  Robert Bresson

  Unexpected

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.46, New York Review of Books

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• Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nice, Snakes, Twists

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• Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Real, Color, Psychics

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• Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Liberty, Speech

  Francis Bacon (1720). “Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, ... In Two Volumes. ...”

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• To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

  Richard Branson

  Motivational, Inspiring, Ideas

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

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• The relationship between individuals or communities and the environment ultimately stems from their relationship with God. When ‘man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Order, Community

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.20, CUA Press

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