Nicholas Kristof

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

American Journalist

George Konrad

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Hungarian Novelist

Greg Graffin

Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from scientists. My goal both as a singer and an instructor is to educate through provocation and entertainment.

American Musician

Garry Trudeau

For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.

American Cartoonist

Maurizio Cattelan

Provocations are like a Molotov cocktail. They only work one time out of ten, but when it works, it can also be dangerous for the arm that is throwing it. It's the price that has to be paid.

Italian Artist

Garry Kasparov

I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

Celebrity

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Roman Statesman

John Tillotson

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

British Theologian

Ang Lee

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

Chinese Director

David Dellinger

My position has always been to avoid violence to avoid provocation.

Provocation often refers to something that emotionally triggers someone, usually leading to a reaction.

Emotional Trigger

It implies an action that comes before and provokes a reaction. The focus is on the cause, not the effect.

Precedes Reaction

Provocation may not always be intentional. Actions can be provocative by accident.

Not Always Intentional

In legal contexts, provocation can refer to something that legally justifies or explains a reaction or response.

Legal Trigger

Evidence of provocation can impact the severity of a legal sentence or verdict.

Affects Legal Outcome

In law, 'provocation' has a specific meaning that might differ from everyday use, often relating to culpability.

Specific Legal Definition

 I renamed all the stations to abstract musical provocations, and the players, who are synchronized with stopwatches, follow the timetables, which are listed in minutes past the hour. So this is a case of actually adapting something, or maybe stealing something, and then turning it into a musical notation. Another adaptation would be this piece.

The mad scientist of...

 mother that was a second the second way working the first one body to body transfer yeah with an outside mental architecture that I work with that they hold memory with for me the second one which is using them as objects to think with their architectural objects I do a series of provocations I say if this

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 that anger is probably not the only thing we're feeling in these situations. Anger doesn't happen in a vacuum. We can feel angry at the same time that we're scared or sad, or feeling a host of other emotions. But here's the these provocations -- they aren't making us mad. At least not on their own,

Why we get mad -- and...

 The provocation was that instead of growing a plant, like cotton, in a field over several months, we could use microbes to grow a similar cellulose material in a lab in a few days. Using a certain species of bacteria in a nutrient-rich liquid,

Why "biofabrication" is...

 context with the outside world and this photograph shows how that style of jump was actually done and how it looks from the outside now some may say there is a dangerous provocation with this kind of video pushing people participants and

My life as a professional...

 So how does this work? What happens is, a third party's provocation forces one or the other to react, and that sets in motion a spiral, which drags the two somewhere they don't want to go. If that seems crazy, it is. But it's life.

Is war between China and...

 and then in interviews, people started calling me The Bad Feminist. So, what started as a bit of an inside joke with myself and a willful provocation, has become a thing. Let me take a step back. When I was younger,

Roxane Gay: Confessions...

 but they're already sizing each other up. Simba has age and experience on his side, but these young challengers look supremely confident. Roaring in another lion's territory is the ultimate act of provocation.

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 and out for a hot fudge sundae. When I was in seventh grade, one of the kids on my school bus nicknamed me "Percy," as a shorthand for my demeanor. And sometimes, he and his cohort would chant that provocation

How the worst moments in...

 under the influence of rabies even docile animals often become dangerously aggressive and bite without provocation since the virus often concentrates in the saliva of the infected animal a