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A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. ↗

— Ronald Knox

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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

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A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. ↗

— Jessamyn West

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I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know. ↗

— Dave Navarro

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Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. ↗

— Walter Pater

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Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. ↗

— Hu Shih

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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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