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• I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.

  Jamie Sives

  Years, Office, One Day

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• I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Gold, Controversial, Policy

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• The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.

  Wes Smith

  People, Agents, Controversial

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• When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

  Rod Taylor

  Jobs, Actors, Firsts

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• Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as ‘their home — their fortress.’ And good for them, I say. Well done!

  Vladimir Putin

  Home, Russia, Defense

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• To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

  Ivars Peterson

  Math, Ideas, World

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• If you care about this country, if you want to take part in a citizen’s movement that helps heal the deep racial, economic, and cultural divides tearing us apart, you must read Eric Deggans’ Race-Baiter. No book of recent vintage so thoroughly dissects the media’s monetized appetite for division. Provocative, honest, and smart, Race-Baiter is a supremely important book. Read it and let the conversation begin.

  Connie May Fowler

  Country, Smart, Book

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• The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.

  William Feather

  Determination, Widows, Succeed

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Beautiful, Unusual, Elegant

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• I want you cool and regal, earthy and impertinent, spoiling for a fight and abashed at your own temper. I want you flushed with exertion and rosy with sleep. I want you teasing and provocative, somber and thoughtful. I want every emotion, every mood, every year in a lifetime to come. I want you beside me, to encourage and argue with me, to help me and let me help you. I want to be your champion and lover, your mentor and student.

  Connie Brockway

  Love, Sleep, Fighting

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• President-elect [Donald] Trump has made a provocative choice for secretary of education. Betsy DeVos comes from a wealthy Michigan family. She is an advocate for school choice. That phrase means, in essence, directing public education money to charter schools, private schools or parochial schools.

  Steve Inskeep

  School, Mean, Essence

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There are things going on in galleries recently that have shocked me. What I'm going to say is really controversial, but what I find the most provocative is the commerciality of art in general. And the fact that a lot of people have forgotten what the meaning of art is and what the intention behind it is.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, People, Forgotten

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Bangkok 8 is one of the most startling and provocative mysteries that I've read in years. The characters are marvelously unique, the setting is intoxicating and the plot unwinds in dark illusory strands, reminiscent of Gorky Park. Once I started, I didn't want to put it down.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Character, Dark, Unique

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• Donald Trump is behaving in an extremely provocative way toward China, having first cancelled the TPP and alienated America's friends in the region. Same thing that he's authorizing much riskier gambits against ISIS, having alienated many of America's allies and friends in the region.

  David Frum

  America, Isis, Firsts

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Trump has his own audience, which is in many cases as big as or bigger than the media covering him. He doesn't need the media. He enjoys them being around. He likes toying with them. He likes being provocative around them. To him, the media is a plaything. To the Republican and Democrat establishments, the media holds coequal position in the entire power structure of the ruling class.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Class, Needs

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• People can't bear the idea that I could be sexual and provocative, and still be a nice person with a nice family and a nice husband, and have a career that could work, and be paid a certain amount of money.

  Demi Moore

  Husband, Nice, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's still the White House exploding [in "Independence Day"]. It was just so provocative, and no one had ever done it before. I remember when we shot it, how everyone was excited.

  Roland Emmerich

  White, House, Independence

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.

  John Diefenbaker

  Strong, Essence, Freedom Of Speech

  John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade

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• All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. But if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. You can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. But fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Successful, Thinking

  "A conversation with Game of Thrones author George RR Martin". Interview, www.smh.com.au. August 1, 2011.

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• A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it passes for acceptance of an idea.

  William O. Douglas

  Acceptance, Ideas, Government

  "Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 U.S. 1". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. May 16, 1949.

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• I think it's a real debate how big NATO should be and whether or not it's more provocative than good. Whenever there's a war fought, our soldiers fight it and our dollars pay for it. And, really, our decisions need to be about our national security.

  Rand Paul

  Real, War, Fighting

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.

  Theodor Adorno

  Lying, Silence, Doe

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.161, Stanford University Press

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• It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.

  Lyall Watson

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Lyall Watson (1987). “The dreams of dragons: riddles of natural history”, William Morrow & Co

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• Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

  John Densmore

  Passion, Sensual, Stuff

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of intimacy and sexuality. The object of my game is to bring nonjudgmental, multicultural understanding to the challenges and choices of modern relationships.

  Esther Perel

  Games, People, Choices

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