Salvador Dali
Artist, Surrealist
"To be interesting, one has to provoke."
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Provoking
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Madonna Ciccone
Singer
"My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit."
Paulo Coelho
Writer
"Most experiences provoke a transformation in you. So, when you live something, live it fully because you never know when this is going to happen again and not only that, if it even happens again, it will not have the same impact."
Thomas Wilson
Politician
"Truth provokes those whom it does not convert."
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"Every sin provokes its punishment."
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"Originality provokes originality."
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"Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace."
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"Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation."
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"The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke."
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"Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?"
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"Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking."
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"Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm."
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"One sin another doth provoke."
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"No man provokes me with impunity."
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"It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect"
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