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A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.
H. L. Mencken / Journalist
Gentleman
Provocation
Strikes
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A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.
Ang Lee / Film Director
Movie
Actors
Messages
Provocation
Message
Statement
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
Alexander Pope / Poet
Asks
Provocation
Strong
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Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.
Robert Peel / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Northern Ireland
Provocation
Said
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Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
Samuel Johnson / Writer
Enmity
Needs
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With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.
Sergei Lavrov /
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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
John Tillotson / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Forgiveness
Able
Argument
Forgiving
Mind
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Reason
Bear
Forgive
Great Mind
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
Octavia Spencer / Actress
Mind
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Sometimes
Speak
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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / Philosopher
Defense
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Revenge
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Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.
Patrick Chappatte /
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Allah
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Screw
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'The Missing Picture' came together slowly, after much provocation and by refusing different forms, until I finally found the right form.
Rithy Panh / Film Director
Missing
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Slowly
Refusing
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Frankly, the idea that exposed legs are some sort of sexual provocation is an argument one would expect to hear from a religious fundamentalist, not a feminist.
Kirsten Powers / Pundit
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Fundamentalist
Legs
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Sexual
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The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.
Jeremy Brett / Actor
Men
Heart
Holmes
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Swag
Heart Brain Man
Indicate
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Mammalian cells of all types disgorge prostaglandins at the slightest provocation, but the tissue content of prostaglandins is very low compared with the release.
John Vane /
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Release
Content
Low
Slightest
Tissue
Types
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People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.
Sarah Palin / Former Governor Of Alaska
Religion
Zero
Insensitive
Mosques
People
Provocation
Unnecessary
Burn
Constitutional
Constitutional Right
Ground
Mosque
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For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.
Garry Trudeau / Cartoonist
Editors
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Rolling
Antagonize
Depend
Intentionally
No Sense
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I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.
Michel Houellebecq / Author
Insult
Problem
Provocation
Tempted
Use
Life I Am Me
Admit
Attack
Brings
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Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.
John Berger / Art Critic
Climbs
Enigma
Human Life
Provocation
Snail
Wall
Search
Studying
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Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home.
Michael Franti / Poet
Provocation
Allow
Demons
Tame
Unleash
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When I'm at my best, I'm trying to destabilize myself and figure out new ways of approaching art as a provocation. I think I am at my best when I push myself into a place where I don't have all the answers.
Kehinde Wiley / Painter
Answers
New Ways
Provocation
Approaching
Figure
Push
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Al Jazeera has abandoned even the semblance of a credible media outlet, and it broadcasts - both within Gaza and outside it, to the world - anti-Semitic incitement, lies, provocation, and encouragement to terrorists.
Avigdor Lieberman / Foreign Affairs Minister Of Israel
Encouragement
Abandoned
Anti Semitic
Credible
Gaza
Media
Provocation
Semblance
Al
Al Jazeera
Lies
Outlet
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The person I respect most, in terms of historical figures, is probably Nelson Mandela. I just think that his tolerance in the face of extreme provocation is something every single person on the planet could learn from.
Mark Strong / Film Actor
Figures
Nelson
Provocation
Single Person
Tolerance
Extreme
Mandela
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
Idries Shah / Author
Believe
Modern Times
Past
People
Provocation
Time Believe Past
Beliefs
Illustrative
In The Past
Perhaps
Purposes
Tragedies
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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
Wilson Mizner / Playwright
Anger
Inadequate
Inevitable
Long
Occasions
Provocation
Scripture
Conceived
Degree
Rule
Sinful
Slight
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Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from scientists. My goal both as a singer and an instructor is to educate through provocation and entertainment.
Greg Graffin / Musician
Academic
Educate
Entertainment
Praise
Provocation
Authors
Books
Interested
Public
Expect
Singer
Generally
Instructor
Scientists
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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
George Konrad /
Courage
Dangerous
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Thinking
Tomorrow
Then
Accumulate
Another
Somebody
Only
Take
Number
Wait
Small
Maybe
Right
Reaction
Step
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Which
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'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.
Michael Haneke / Film Director
Funny
Audience
Games
Intention
Provocation
Where People Feel
Funny Where People
Quite
Funny People Feel
Conceived
Respond
Films
Mine
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Some people think that my shows are just for shock value, but the provocation makes those classic pieces look different every six months. You don't need to see the same gray suit every season. But surrounding it with 40 really interesting ideas makes it feel new.
Thom Browne / Fashion Designer
Classic
Provocation
Shock
Suit
Surrounding
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It isn't only in the name of free speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerated - and I say itchy polemicist promoting thought, not itchy ideologue promoting violence - but because provocation is indispensable to the workings of a sound, creative culture.
Howard Jacobson / Author
Free Speech
Indispensable
Itchy
Provocation
Views
Tolerated
Workings
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I think the Eritrean government is aware that any full-scale invasion of Ethiopia along the lines of 1998 could turn out to be suicidal... And we will not respond to any provocation short of all-out invasion. We are already engaged in a much more fruitful war - against poverty.
Meles Zenawi / Former Prime Minister Of Ethiopia
Engaged
Ethiopia
Invasion
Lines
Poverty
Provocation
Suicidal
All-Out
Aware
Respond
Short
Fruitful
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