#agitation

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality. ↗

— William Falconer

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The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject. ↗

— William Falconer

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The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. ↗

— Michael Korda

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

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Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. ↗

— Martin Luther

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Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America. ↗

— Johann Most

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If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation. ↗

— Johann Most

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