#provoke

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. ↗

— Clive Bell

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It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#another #around #day #either #get

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke. ↗

— Octave Mirbeau

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Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants. ↗

— Elizabeth Montagu

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I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's time things change. I feel 30 and want to look that way again. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

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Repression will provoke rebellion. ↗

— Hugh Williamson

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

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As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

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There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

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