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• If it doesn't happen, the continuing oppression will be met by more resistance from a less tolerant populace which wants a democratic restoration. And that resistance will only invite further oppression.

  Florencio Abad

  Want, Resistance, Restoration

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• I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into the house. Let us see what you have. Let us talk it over. If I do not like your thought, I will bid it a polite "good day." If I do like it, I will say: "Sit down; stay with me, and become a part of the intellectual wealth of my world."

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Good Day, Ideas, House

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2196, Library of Alexandria

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• We are told that if you are not occupied with the mind all the time, then you will invite the devil. It is such a heightened misconception that people are going crazy just because of this. An empty mind is not the devil's home but an empty mind is the home of the Buddha.

  Anandmurti Gurumaa

  Crazy, Home, Empty Mind

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• Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within - for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.

  Suetonius

  Angel, Mirrors, Balance

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• One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to project one's own image or fantasies. In intimacy, one respectfully interacts with the other, invites the penetration of the other, enters into a common effort, and then the strange and distinct contours of self and other become more apparent.

  Deena Metzger

  Self, Effort, Strange

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• Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.

  Maya Angelou

  Space, Mind Your Own Business, Hopes And Fears

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• I want to express my closeness to the people of the Philippines who have been struck by a strong earthquake, and I invite you to pray for that dear nation, which in recent days has suffered different calamities.

  Pope Francis

  Strong, Earthquakes, People

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• Dear young friends, learn to pray every day: this is the way to know Jesus and invite him into your lives.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Young Friends, Way

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

  George Clooney

  Coffee, Home, Character

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• Please think about this as you go on. Breathe on the world. Hold out your hands to it. When morning and evenings roll along, watch how they open and close, how they invite you to the long party that your life is.

  William Stafford

  Morning, Party, Thinking

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• God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.

  Timothy Keller

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• Open your heart and invite God into every circumstance because when God enters the scene, miracles happen.

  Victoria Osteen

  God, Christian, Religious

  FaceBook post by Victoria Osteen from Dec 10, 2012

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• Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.

  Don Roff

  Fear, Creativity, Self

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• Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.

  Michael Dell

  People, Trying, Different

  Michel Dell's commemencement speech at the University of Texas at Austin, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 2003.

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• Solomon's Laws:
  8. If a guy who's smart, handsome, and rich invites you and your girlfriend to a nudist club...chances are he's got a giant shmeckel.

  Paul Levine

  Girlfriend, Smart, Law

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• The pig is the most shameless animal on the face of the earth. It is the only animal that invites its friends to have sex with its mate. In America, most people consume pork. Many times after dance parties, they have swapping of wives; many say 'you sleep with my wife and I will sleep with your wife.' If you eat pigs then you behave like pigs.

  Zakir Naik

  Sex, Party, Sleep

  "Answers To Non Muslims Common Questions About Islam". Book by Zakir Naik, 2008.

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• I will follow anyone... and invite everyone... too unite and defend the freedom of expression.

  Widad Akrawi

  Expression, Freedom Of Expression

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• Laughter is a symptom of spirituality. Laughter is the flow of love coursing through your body. Laughter is the nectar of present moment awareness. Invite more laughter into your life and relish the magic in every moment.

  David Simon

  Laughter, Magic, Body

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• Invite good things into your life. When you confess good things based on what God is saying, you'll begin to see more favor!

  Joel Osteen

  Favors, Affirmation, Good Things

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2012

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• To copy is to invite disaster.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Risk, Management, Disaster

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• It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Sleep, Naps, Doe

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• My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

  William Shenstone

  Sleep, Bees

  William Shenstone (1804). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone. With the Life of the Author and a Description of the Leasowes. [Edited by R. Dodsley.]”, p.80

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• Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites. ... There is a war between good and

  Michael O'Brien

  War, Liberty, Acting

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• All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

  John Donne

  Mercy, All Time, All Occasions

  1624 Sermons,'Christmas Day, 1624'.

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• I have decided to proclaim for the whole Church... a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, the Middle East, and throughout the world, and I also invite each person, including our fellow Christians, followers of other religions and all men of good will, to participate, in whatever way they can, in this initiative.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Prayer, Men

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