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Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.


Alcee Hastings


#attacks #borders #civilians #furthering #goal

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.


Peter Lewis Allen


#america #any #before #disease #early

I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.


Dick Armey


#another #attack #been #believe #consistent

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.


Charles Babbage


#am #answers #apprehend #asked #been

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.


George Henry Lewes


#animosity #announcing #certain #compelling #dissent

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.


Maria Mitchell


#genuine #love #neither #nor #own






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