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• To seek Truth is automatically a calling for the innate dissident and the subversive; how many are willing to give up safety and security for the perilous life of the spiritual revolutionary? How many are willing to truly learn that their own cherished concepts are wrong? Striking provocative or mysterious poses in the safety of Internet [social media] is far easier than taking the risks involved in the hard work of genuine initiation.

  Zeena Schreck

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Hard Work

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• All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.

  Lynn Margulis

  Animal, Self, Eggs

  "A Woman's Worth: 1857 Letter Echoes Still; Some Basic Disputes Over Feminism Persist" by Patricia Cohen, www.nytimes.com. July 18, 1998.

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• Newton's theory is not 'not right', it just does not cover all distances. Contrary to popular belief, theories in science are not proven wrong, they are just replaced by more complete and convenient theories. To sound provocative, even the geocentric theory was never "proven" wrong, it is just not as convenient as the heliocentric theory, since it requires endless epicycles.

  Nathan Seiberg

  Distance, Science, Sound

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• Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.

  Jamais Cascio

  Gathering, Development, Might

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• Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we might see ourselves in a cultural and moral landscape that is disturbingly familiar, yet entirely new. As though granted a new beginning, Marcus renames the creatures of our world, questions who we are and who, as men and women, we might be. Notable American Women is a wonder book, pleasurable and provocative.

  Maureen Howard

  Moving, Book, New Beginnings

  "Notable American Women". Book by Ben Marcuso, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. March 19, 2002.

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• Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance.

  Peggy Phelan

  Witty, Art, Assessment

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• I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just to be shocking. That is where it begins for me, not where it stops. And I could be much more shocking. I think I've adopted a sense of subtlety. I don't sit around wondering how I can make myself even stranger to the world. I've simply evolved into the monster I created, and I'm quite happy with it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, Challenges

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• My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd's of London, you know what I'm saying?

  Cee Lo Green

  Brain, Pits, London

  "Cee Lo Green Is Fking Outrageous". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 5, 2012.

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• I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Sacrifice, Needs, Controversial

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a sense of respect: respect for my suppliers, respect for the staff, respect for the customer - as long as they respect us. When we have a customer who is playing a provocative, disrespectful game, then we just prefer to just throw him out, rather than deal with it. Some people, sometimes, are unhappy themselves. And that can really create a frustrating performance to us and to the staff and all that. I don't throw customers out as much as I used to. In the old days, "You don't like it? Get out!" I'm much nicer now.

  Daniel Boulud

  Long, People, Unhappy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• While one could hardly say that philosophers have given much attention to the place that the concept of evil has among our moral concepts, they have done so more in the last ten or so years than they had before. I have, therefore, often wondered why there has been so little discussion of goodness. In Search of Goodness is not only an exception: it is an admirable one. It is original and provocative, impressive both in its breadth and depth.

  Raimond Gaita

  Years, Evil, Depth

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• I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to tell both sides of the story, but I'm still proud of it.

  Josh Hartnett

  Opportunity, Thinking, Black

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• We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Compassion, Skills Training

  "How to Get Real Happiness: An Interview with Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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• Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.

  Frans de Waal

  Long, Body, Arms

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• History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

  Vladimir Putin

  Government, Human Rights, Form

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• I remember saying to myself those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative. Art is also about beauty. And if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.

  Nikky Finney

  Art, Mean, Important

  "The Beauty And Difficulty Of Poet Nikky Finney". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. April 8, 2012.

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• Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

  John Podhoretz

  Media, Break Through, Needs

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• It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

  Catherine Deneuve

  People, Erotic, Feelings

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• I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Character, Thinking, Situation

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• Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Community, Political, Paper

  "Why Don't You? Sarah Jessica Parker" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 4, 2009.

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• The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Military, Iran, Would Be

  Rudy Giuliani's speech at the MSNBC's Republican first presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

  Lady Gaga

  Hate, Genre

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• Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.

  Sam Harris

  Worried, Let Me

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• Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?" He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?" I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell

  Suzanne Collins

  Laughing, Guy, Leaving

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.79, Scholastic Inc.

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• To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

  John Updike

  Funny, Sex, War

  Self-Consciousness ch. 4 (1989)

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