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Picks fights so you feel obligated to make things up to them • Always

Ces actes, cette méthode ne sont pas innocents pour le cynique ; il s’agit d’abandonner les fausses pudeurs, les faux respects d’autrui pour, enfin, pouvoir philosopher convenablement. Ce ne sont aucunement des provocations gratuites ; provoquer sert à démontrer à quel point nos conventions sont ancrées dans des habitudes, dont on ne se demande plu

Pick a fight

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encouraged Palestinian terrorists to commit acts of violence in order to provoke overreaction by Israel and secure one-sided condemnation of Israel by the international community.

The fact that he was not arrested sooner was due to his itinerant style, and to his concentration on villages rather than major cities, not to anything bland or unprovocative about the content of his message.

Just because somebody asked you a question doesn’t mean you have to answer it. Dramatic people are fueled by reactions. When you stop reacting, they go away. Same goes for yourself. Your emotions insist they need you to respond. When you ignore the urges, they go away too.

Pugnacity with its attendant emotion of anger is a human constant. The public relations counsel uses this continually in constructing all kinds of events that will call it into play. Because of it, too, he is often forced to enact combats and create issues. He stages battles against evils in which the antagonist is personified for the public.