#provoke

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

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Please, please don't try hurting me, my friends. I wouldn't forgive myself If I had to kill you all. ↗

— Toba Beta

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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then? ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

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Writers should provoke disagreement. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ↗

— James Boswell

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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

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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

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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

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