Provoking Quotes - Page 26

• Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Want, Heard

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• Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Charity, Poverty

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• All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  People, Thought Provoking, Access

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• The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.

  Paul Muldoon

  Eye, Feet, Noses

  Princeton University Library Chronicle, Spring 1998.

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• It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

  William Shakespeare

  Alcohol, Desire, Mars

  Macbeth II. 3

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• The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a country can stick its tongue out quite far these days without provoking war, so horrible are war's consequences.

  E. B. White

  Country, War, Bombs

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