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• The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.

  Tom Peters

  Ideas, Champion, Energy

  Tom Peters, Nancy Austin (1985). “A passion for excellence”

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• My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

  Epicurus

  Garden, Doe, Natural

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• Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Regret, Book, Ideas

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.7, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Comforting, Wish

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• This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Faith, Running, Writing

  Terry Tempest Williams (2001). “Leap”, Vintage

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• Business is the most powerful institution on earth today. It is more powerful than politics. Business serves us very well in some ways, but it doesn't serve us as fully as it should; it doesn't serve us fully as people.

  Michael Rennie

  Powerful, People, Challenges

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• Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.

  Dan Ariely

  Witty, Sex, Teenage

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• A disciple is a disciple maker.

  Francis Chan

  Thought Provoking, Makers, Disciple

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• Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sight, Enjoy, Speculation

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• Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.

  Georges Sorel

  Country, Peace, Hate

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• The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

  Al Pacino

  Risk, Acting, Who Cares

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• Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent. The business class is combined with the evangelicals. And I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ. So they are very happy about what we're doing to Iraq - and the menace we present now for Syria and for Iran - because they think that the apocalypse is an important thing to get into so that they can see vindicated their most literal interpretation of the Bible.

  Randall Robinson

  Country, Thinking, Important

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• Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling to clear the way and keeping a watchful on the speedometer to see that you do not exceed the speed limit and provoke the wrath of the bicycle policeman or the covetous constable.

  Harriet Quimby

  Wrath, Riding, Way

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• We don't understand what photography is doing. We don't understand the power of its rhetoric. We don't understand why the Provoke photographers showed Tokyo city as a ghastly and alien city when it was really going through this period of mega-capitalist growth. It's a very, very, very powerful force, the photograph. People ask me why it has such an ability to captivate us. And I just don't know.

  Stuart Franklin

  Photography, Powerful, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Alcohol, Doe

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• For me, sexual identity and orientation is a human right, which should also be accepted by the United Nations. Of course, innovations in this area provoke contradictions, especially in a society like ours, because Cuba has so many revolutionary processes.

  Mariela Castro

  Innovation, Identity, Revolutionary

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My first film - a challenging role and completely different from the persona that was created in Italy. I was this super energetic, vibrant, happy, volumed hair, fitted dresses, the whole Italian va-va-voom thing. And the role was a girl that was really provoking society with being unnecessarily violent - just trying to see what people's limits are. It's a really dark tunnel to get to being nasty, being full of hate. When people hate there's a big sadness and rage within them, so it was interesting to go that dark with my first experience.

  Moran Atias

  Girl, Hate, Sadness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

  Walt Whitman

  Forever, Vision, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.35, NYU Press

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• Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic front. I would like to know what it is they have in mind exactly: action by a fifth column, this disparate bunch of 'national traitors', or are they hoping to put us in a worsening social and economic situation so as to provoke public discontent? We consider such statements irresponsible and clearly aggressive in tone, and we will respond to them accordingly.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Threatening Us, Mind

  "Prince Charles is right: Similarites between Putin and Hitler are uncanny" by Trent Franks, www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2014.

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• What we are seeing in Turkey is a non-uniformed authoritarian regime led by a politician, Tayyip Erdogan, who has allowed power to go to his head and is behaving more and more like a despot. Sooner or later this will provoke political uprisings throughout the country as happened after Gezi.

  Tariq Ali

  Country, Political, Politician

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in this way bring about the conflict for which we, too, like other men, are hungering in secret, and with suppressed barbarity.

  Thomas Merton

  Ignorance, Men, Justice

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• Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Eye, Men

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Mother, Challenges, Inspire

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• Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries.

  Peter Thomas Bauer

  Country, Rich Countries, Challenges

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• In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors in society to mobilize global science, technology and knowledge to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation and conflict that are holding back the developing world.

  Kofi Annan

  Responsibility, Technology, Government

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