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“Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.”
Dorothy Parker quotes (American short-story Writer and Poet, 1893-1967)
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“To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they don't like, provided the matter relates to "sexual impurity" or has a tendency "to excite lustful thoughts." This is community censorship in one of its worst forms.”
William Orville Douglas quotes

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“Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us.”
William James quotes (American Philosopher and Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842-1910)
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“We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in”
Thomas Merton quotes (American and Trappist Monk t Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Trappist, Kentucky, 1915-1968)
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“Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully”
William Cullen Bryant quotes (American Writer, 1794-1878)
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“It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things”
Anne Sullivan quotes (American teacher , 1866-1936)
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“The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.”
Orson Welles quotes (American motion-picture actor, director, producer, and writer, 1915-1985)

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“I'll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!”
William Makepeace Thackeray quotes (Indian born English Author and Novelist of 'Vanity Fair', 1811-1863)

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excite synonyms: agitate, agitates, arouse, arouses, arousing, charge, charges, charging, energize, rouse, sex, sexes, shake, shake up, stimulate, stimulates, stir, turn on, wind up.

excite antonyms: calm, calm down, calmer, calmest, dampen, lull, lulled, lulls, quiet, quieted, quieter, quietest, quiets, stifle, still, stilled, stiller, stillest, stilling, stills, tranquilize.

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