Pun-provoking thyme.
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Stanza 11.William Shenstone
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Principally, the job is to hold an audience, and to do it in an intelligent, and hopefully thought-provoking way, but you don’t put thought-provoking on the marquee.
Lorne Michaels
We have to oppose the widespread view that if the Russians are provoking us, we shouldn't react because that could be perceived as a confirmation of Poland's alleged russophobia. Let's remember that Russia is not only provoking us but also checking how far it can go. Recently it went definitely too far. We must react when we have to do with obvious nonsense, like the Russian foreign ministry's recent statement that Yalta resulted in a strong, free, and democratic Poland.
Lech Kaczynski
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
Consider the Empire and Gandhi.Ogden Nash
Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.
Mark Kingwell
Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato’s Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit.
Richard Weaver
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