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• I have great respect for press freedoms. At the same time, however, a politician also has the freedom to decide whether he or she will accept an invitation to appear on a show or not.

  Angela Merkel

  Politician, Accepting, Freedom Of The Press

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

  Keeley Hawes

  Thinking, Doors, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

  Gregory Maguire

  Errors, Soul, Body

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• The war in Iraq, specifically America's role of leadership in this war, is a painful invitation to ask ourselves what, if anything, we've learned from previous wars. I am revolted by the brutal killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people during any war. And I'm saddened by the apparent inability of human beings to find less violent solutions to conflict and terrorism.

  Wayne Dyer

  War, People, What If

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• Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Father, Dark, White

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• Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and living consciousness.

  Pierre Hadot

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Exercise

  "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 157), 2001.

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• I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or published. I get invitations to go to all sorts of strange countries where I would mostly be by myself and just meet other people there, instead of having travelling companions.

  Robert Winston

  Country, Successful, People

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• The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: Receive the Holy Ghost. And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Choices, Church, Ghost

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• In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

  Herta Muller

  Wells

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• I'd extend an invitation to Lisbeth Salander. She would definitely shake the party up and get it started. I think she is hands down one of the most original, innovative, kickass female fictional characters ever.

  Megan Chance

  Party, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Indeed, I did not truly "belong" to any school, order, intellectual camaraderie or clique; I did not apply for admission to any of them, let alone did much to deserve an invitation; nor would I be listed by any of them - at least listed unqualifiedly - as "one of us".

  Zygmunt Bauman

  School, Order, Intellectual

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• I do believe that Obama is at war with Islam, it is never too late to embrace Islam. If we were to establish Sharia in America, he would have to stand before Sharia court and pay for the crimes that he committed. The invitation is there for him to give up all of his falsehoods and all of the crimes that he has committed and to embrace Islam.

  Anjem Choudary

  Giving Up, War, Believe

  Source: www.yahoo.com

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• A miracle is an invitation into a new story.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Miracle, Stories

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• The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And then acting on it

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Opportunity, Essence

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• People who get higher pay are more willing to relocate--especially to undesirable locations at the company's behest... A corporate secretary may change companies in the same town; a corporate executive is more likely to change towns with the same company. A talented corporate secretary sees an invitation to relocate as an invitation; a future corporate executive sees an invitation to relocate as an opportunity--and an obligation.

  Warren Farrell

  Opportunity, People, Getting High

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• Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: “There is the surface. Now think – or rather feel, intuit – what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.’ Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy

  Susan Sontag

  Reality, Thinking, Fascination

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.23, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

  Dean Koontz

  Kindness, Empathy, Weakness

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.471, Bantam

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• The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

  Laozi

  Heaven, Victory, Doe

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• You can't act like you've arrived when you're only just receiving the invitation.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Receiving, Like You

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.83, Penguin

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• Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

  Karl Abraham

  Children, Opposites, Yield

  Karl Abraham (1968). “Selected Papers, with an Introductory Memoir by Ernest Jones”

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• I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the decolonizing, anti-racist process.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Expression, Giving

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• You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wind, Agents, May

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4165, Delphi Classics

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• Trusting yourself is realizing yourself. Trusting life is realizing yourself as life. This is an invitation to our thinking minds to open in trust. We can trust that there is a knowing that is out of the realm of thoughts or emotions or circumstances. When we deeply trust, our minds open to discover what is true, regardless of what we are feeling. The deepest trust is a by-product of this true realization.

  Gangaji

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Thinking

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• There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.

  Saint Augustine

  Sweet Love, First Love, Happy Love

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• All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

  Bill Drayton

  Creativity, Skills, Creative

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