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• I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to others.... Kindred souls—indeed, my selves otherwise costumed—turn up in books in the most unexpected places. Discovering them is one of the great rewards of a liberal education. If I quote liberally, it is not to show off book learning, which at my stage of life can only invite ridicule, but rather to bathe in this kinship of strangers.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Book, Self, Oneness

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• Insufficient facts always invite danger.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Facts, Mr Spock, Danger

  "Fictional character: Spock". TV Series "Star Trek: The Original Series", ("Space Seed"), 1966-1969.

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• Who timidly requests invites refusal.

  Seneca the Younger

  Refusal, Request, Timidity

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• A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Eight, Interesting

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Doe, Sensuality

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• As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.

  Mother Teresa

  Real, Angel, Home

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

  Hesiod

  Enemy, Dinner

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.59, University of Michigan Press

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• If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want.

  Chevy Chase

  White, House, Want

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• Give 'em a pussy invite.

  Lil' Kim

  Sex, Giving, Pussy

  "Do What You Like". Song by Larceny, K. Raphael, Kimberly Jones, Jamel Fisher, James Lloyd, 2000.

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• I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in mind if you're going to work with Claus Ogerman. You invite him to do what he does.

  Diana Krall

  Writing, Mean, Artist

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• Every time we push personal development aside, we invite personal struggle into our lives.

  Hal Elrod

  Struggle, Wake Up, Development

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jun 25, 2013

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• No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Energy, Events, Deeds

  Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

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• The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.

  Rick Perry

  Order, Weakness, Lessons

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see a new expanse not only around him, but in him, too.

  Hal Borland

  Distance, Eye, Autumn

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• The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.

  Victor Hugo

  Simple, Symphony, World

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 339, 1895.

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• But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.

  Walter Raleigh

  Eye, June, Rose

  Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.721

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• Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Teacher, Work, Home

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• Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.

  Bill Moyers

  Reflection, Television, Pages

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• Jesus' power is the power of human wholeness that ultimately opens, invites and enables human beings to step beyond defense lines where incomplete humanity always hides in order to experience full humanity.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Order, Humanity

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• For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed by equally sudden falls. I have most faith in the individual or enterprise that advances step by step. A mushroom can spring up in a day; an oak takes 50 years or more to reach maturity. Mushrooms don't last; oaks do. The real cause for an enormous number of business failures is premature over-expansion, attempting to gallop before learning to creep. Sudden successes often invite sudden reverses.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Spring, Real

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• You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Leadership, Opportunity, Waiting

  Tama J. Kieves (2003). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

  T. S. Eliot

  Events, Bottles, Unexpected

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• Brothers naturally invite comparison.

  Larry Watson

  Brother, Comparison

  Larry Watson (2010). “Montana 1948: A Novel”, p.24, Milkweed Editions

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• By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

  Richard Louv

  Humility, Our Lives

  Richard Louv (2016). “Vitamin N: The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life”, p.215, Atlantic Books

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• They'll invite you to all the parties, but that doesn't mean you have to go all the time.

  Johnny Olson

  Party, Mean

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