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• Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Funny, Science, Ideas

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• The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Peace, Justice, Community

  "Leisure as transformation: Volume 4". Book by Christopher R. Edginton, Peter Chen, p. 87, 2008.

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• The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Memories, Eight, Years

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

  Conrad Hall

  Cinema, Emotion, Metaphor

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• When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Issues, Decision, Trying

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Substance, Answers, Mouths

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality.

  Morris Graves

  Reality, Quality, Mysterious

  Harvard Review, Issues 20-21, p. 26, 2001.

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• You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

  George William Russell

  Time, Plums, Spirit

  "Across My Path" by Pelham Edgar, (p. 148), 1952.

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• Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.

  Charles Rosen

  Doe, Affection, Stravinsky

  Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'.

  John William Strutt

  Science, Desire, Delight

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• Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values... it requires that their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason. Now I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, to take one example, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Teaching, Law

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• The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

  Ken Kesey

  Jobs, Garden, Needs

  "The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review No. 130, Spring 1994.

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• I think of spirit as that which evokes us - the lure of becoming that keeps calling. And I think of soul as that which gets us through the cartography of everyday life.

  Jean Houston

  Thinking, Soul, Everyday

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is an exceptional, lovely book, beautifully enigmatic, speaking a language that mysteriously evokes the unspoken.

  Lydia Millet

  Book, Unique, Grace

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• How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them. Do they not see the harm resulting from excess in certain gymnastic exercises and sports not suitable for virtuous girls? What sins are committed or provoked by conversations which are too free, by immodest shows, by dangerous reading. How lax have consciences become, how pagan morals!

  Pope Pius XII

  Girl, Sports, Reading

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• I tend to think of fear and humour as very, very close together. And to be honest I think pornography completes the triangle, because they are things that to work need to evoke a certain reaction.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Together, Needs

  "Master Shaper". Interview with David Carroll, www.tabula-rasa.info. 1997.

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• It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Errors, Self

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• What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

  Pablo Picasso

  Emotional, Feelings, Want

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• The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Divinity, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

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• I don't know what it is on an elemental level, but a beard in general evokes hedonism. It's a more lush personal grooming style. It's more comfortable and cozy; it's less sharp and angular and businesslike. I feel like a beard is more Hobbit-like, even though Hobbits themselves are clean-shaven.

  Nick Offerman

  Style, Levels, Cozy

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• I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

  Brad Furman

  Believe, Character, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his humanhood or is still playing with masks and roles and status symbols. And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Children, Differences, Roles

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling of sound and meaning, as a curve of emotion (a form) plotted by certain crises of events or image or sound, or as a title which evokes a sense of inner relations; this is the first 'surfacing' of the poem. Then a period of stillness may follow.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Memories, Ideas, Curves

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• Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one is.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Artist, Phases, Pretending

  H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, James Turner (1976). “Selected Letters 1934-1937”, Arkham House Publishers

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