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• All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Air, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll ...”

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• I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Sports, Men, Wind

  On refusing permission for a team from Cornell University to visit Michigan to play a game of American football. Quoted in D Wallechinsky The People's Almanac (1975).

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• Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.

  Radhanath Swami

  Selfish, Heart, Compassion

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• The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

  Marquis de Sade

  Change, Beautiful, Nature

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• I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She reminded me that the world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Thinking, Long, Bees

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.92, Penguin

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• I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart? I am incapable of more knowledge. What is this, this face So murderous in its strangle of branches? - Its snaky acids kiss. It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, Sleep, Dark

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.35, Faber & Faber

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• When you have an emotional reaction to what you see, you are judging. That is your signal that you have an issue inside of yourself - with yourself - not with the other person. If you react to evil, look inside yourself for the very thing that so agitates you, and you will find it. If it were not there, you will simply discern, act appropriately, and move on.

  Gary Zukav

  Moving, Emotional, Issues

  Gary Zukav (2007). “Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face!

  Rick Riordan

  Phones, Cells, Here I Am

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.984, Penguin UK

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• Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Movement

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• Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll agree that it is high time to agitate less and build more. [Here is] a plan whereby the automobile industry of America can build a magnificent "Appian Way" from New York to San Francisco, having it completed by May 1, 1915 and present it to the people of the United States.

  Carl G. Fisher

  New York, Science, Thinking

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• I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

  William Cobbett

  Agitation, Stomach, Fellows

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• The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.

  Samuel Johnson

  Retirement, Theatre, Firsts

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].”, p.222

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• Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Education, War, Cry

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Soul, Doe, Eloquence

  Walter Savage Landor (1868). “Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations”, p.220

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• Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

  Ernestine Rose

  Opposites, Atheism, Agitation

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• Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another. In governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.

  George Washington

  Wise, Party, Government

  George Washington’s "Farewell Address", oll.libertyfund.org. September 19, 1796.

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• It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mind, Depth, Movement

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.273, Stanford University Press

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• Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Pain, Sleep, Son

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• By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Real, Long, Brain

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• The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Vanity, Sometimes

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• The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ... We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. It is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life. Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Men, Sea

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• In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively eliminating negative thoughts, thoughts that agitate the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Shining, Mind, Trying

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• A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Air, Yesterday, Gone

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• Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be; it comes with peace, delight, and calm. . . . The pain of genuine humility doesn't agitate or afflict the soul; rather, this humility expands it and enables it to serve God more.

  Teresa of Avila

  Pain, Humility, Soul

  Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol 2”, p.89, ICS Publications

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• Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, Clouds, Faces

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.35, Faber & Faber

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