Provoking Quotes - Page 12

• One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thought Provoking, May, Matter

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• If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thought Provoking, Killers, Problem

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• We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Thought Provoking, Worry, Church

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• It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.

  Mother Teresa

  Ocean, Thought Provoking, Drops In The Ocean

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• Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reading, Eye, Voice

  James Russell Lowell (1889). “Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers”

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• First they arrested the Communists - but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats - but was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then they arrested the trade unionists - and I did nothing because I was not one. And then they came for the Jews and then the Catholics, but I was neither a Jew nor a Catholic and I did nothing. At last they came and arrested me - and there was no one left to do anything about it.

  Martin Niemoller

  Thought Provoking, Catholic, Lasts

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• Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Life, Death, Faith

  Jaroslav Pelikan, Valerie R. Hotchkiss, Patrick Henry (2005). “Orthodoxy & Western Culture: A Collection of Essays Honoring Jaroslav Pelikan on His Eightieth Birthday”, p.16, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

  Francis Chan

  Fall, Thought Provoking, Study

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.382, David C Cook

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• Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are.

  Francis Chan

  Beautiful, Jesus, Brother

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2011). “Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up”, p.77, David C Cook

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• A disciple is a disciple maker.

  Francis Chan

  Thought Provoking, Makers, Disciple

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• You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

  Francis Chan

  Thought Provoking, Effort, Excellence

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• I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

  Damon Lindelof

  Littles, Ted Talks, Conversation

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• Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.

  Dan Ariely

  Witty, Sex, Teenage

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• I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

  George Thorndike Angell

  Time, Kindness, Animal

  George Thorndike Angell (1884). “Autobiographical Sketches and Personal Recollections”

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• Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.

  Steve Pavlina

  Meaningful, Goal, Thought Provoking

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• Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.

  Steve Pavlina

  Sacrifice, Thought Provoking, Choices

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• Regardless of others' reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel good about the person gazing back at you.

  Steve Pavlina

  Mirrors, Thought Provoking, Choices

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• "Stop asking "What should I do now?" That question only brings up what others expect of you. Free people don't have shoulds. They have choices."

  Steve Pavlina

  People, Thought Provoking, Choices

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• Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

  Steve Pavlina

  Thought Provoking, Desire, Want

  Steve Pavlina (2010). “Personal Development for Smart People”, p.65, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.

  Steve Pavlina

  Two Sides, Thought Provoking, Coins

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• It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Tasks, Generations, New Generation

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.

  Pope Francis

  Fun, Insult

  "Pope Francis says there are limits to freedom of expression". Press conference on the plane to the Philippines, en.radiovaticana.va. January 15, 2015.

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• There was an op-ed piece in The New York Times by an evolutionary biologist or somebody - which was a curious place for the opinion to come from - and he said that there's no such thing as a completely free, uncensored medium, that people censor themselves all the time, in deference to hurting other people's feelings, or offending other groups, or in their own, not to provoke a fight. And you do self-censor certain things, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. That's just the way human social interaction works.

  David Byrne

  Hurt, Fighting, People

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• The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate

  Christopher Fry

  Moon, Birth Rate, Rising

  The Lady's Not for Burning act 3 (1949)

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• Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

  Pierre Charron

  Mind, Hardship, Fortune

  Pierre Charron (1707). “Of wisdom: Three books. Written originally in French, by the Sieur de Charron. With an account of the author. Made English by George Stanhope, ...”, p.149

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