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• I did not, I could not and I will never invite Obote, ... This is because Obote is someone who made a lot of mistakes in our history.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Mistake, Made

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• You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love, invite love to accompany you 24/7. Give away love, and it has to come streaming into your life.

  Wayne Dyer

  Accompany You, Giving, Streaming

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jan 06, 2012

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• Invite Tranquility
  The sea,--
  Something to look at
  When we are angry.

  Reiko Chiba

  Sea, Looks, Tranquility

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• Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Bearing Witness, Circumstances

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• The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

  Rumi

  Dark, Doors, Laughing

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.

  Mark Rothko

  Artist, Journey, Essentials

  Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko (2006). “The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art”, p.47, Yale University Press

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• Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

  David Remnick

  Pressure, Journalism, Kind

  "David Remnick Looks Back On Tough Decisions As 'The New Yorker' Turns 90". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 18, 2015.

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• Obeying the Spirit instead of your own self-centered whims will lead you to places you've never been, challenge you in ways you have never been challenged, and invite levels of sacrifice you never dreamed you could make. This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.

  Bill Hybels

  Sacrifice, Self, Challenges

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• Darkness comes in waves...tell me, why invite it to stay?

  Eddie Vedder

  Darkness, Wave

  FaceBook post by Eddie Vedder from Jan 07, 2015

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• The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, - you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, - I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Voice

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.19

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• Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace?

  Vladimir Putin

  White, Giving, House

  "Putin rejects 'child-killer talks'". news.bbc.co.uk. September 7, 2004.

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• Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions

  Deepak Chopra

  Expression, Optimism, Intention

  Twitter post from Jul 5, 2015

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• If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.

  Erykah Badu

  Negativity, Hanging Out, Ifs

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• When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Problem, Trouble, Wise Words

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• You do not invite experience with your 'yes' and exclude it with your 'no'. There is no exclusion in this attraction-based Universe. Your focus in the invitation.

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Focus, Exclusion

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• Rating systems work perfectly for players who play only in round robin closed events. I think most of them are overrated. Organizers invite same people over and over because they have the same rating and their rating stays high.

  Alexander Khalifman

  Player, Thinking, People

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• I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Knowing, People, Scary

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• Invite the Sacred to participate in your joy in little things, as well as in your agony over the great ones. There are as many miracles to be seen through a microscope as through a telescope. Start with little things seen through the magnifying glass of wonder, and just as a magnifying glass can focus the sunlight into a burning beam that can set a leaf aflame, so can your focused wonder set you ablaze with insight. Find the light in each other and just fan it.

  Alice O. Howell

  Glasses, Light, Agony

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• To be an ambassador for Christ means to invite everyone to a personal encounter with Jesus

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Mean, Ambassadors

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• Xenophilius Lovegood," he said, extending a hand to Harry. "My daughter and I live over the hill, so kind of the Weasleys to invite us. I think you know my Luna?" he added to Ron."Yes" said Ron. "Isn't she with you?""She lingered in that charming little garden to say hello to the gnomes, such a glorious infestation! How few wizards realize just how much we can learn from the wise little gnomes - or, to give then their correct names, the Gernumbli gardensi.""Ours do know a lot of excellent swear words," said Ron, "but I think Fred and George taught them those.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Daughter, Garden

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• Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.

  Tony Hillerman

  Spring, Reality, Thinking

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• I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness to letting him encounter them.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Jesus, Encounters

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.5, BookBaby

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• Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Meditation, Window, Breeze

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau (2002). “Meditations”, p.13, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• For too long, we’ve called unbelievers to “invite Jesus into your life.” Jesus doesn’t want to be in your life. Your life is a wreck. Jesus calls you into his life. And his life isn’t boring or purposeless or static. It’s wild and exhilarating and unpredictable.

  Russell D. Moore

  Life, Christian, Religious

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• I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Journey, Cost

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from May 29, 2013

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