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• A greater national focus on the criticality of educational equity is needed in order to mobilize the masses and invite everyone to be a part of the solution. Only when every person on the street realizes the role she can play in this movement, can we begin to change the conversations around education.

  Shaheen Mistri

  Educational, Order, Play

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• Rumi says, 'Meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.' With awareness, know which emotions are in the house, and why they’re there, and never forget who you are when the guests leave.

  Ian Lawton

  Doors, Laughing, House

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• His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.

  William Cowper

  Home, Looks, Wit

  'Conversation' (1782) l. 303

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• Whether your focus is on preserving and strengthening family ties in a world of increasingly unstable relationships, gaining access to a decent job, growing and evolving as a person, or guiding a company through the stormy seas of a fiercely competitive global marketplace-whether your goals are material, emotional, or spiritual-the price of success is the same: thinking, learning. To be asleep at the wheel-to rely only on the known, familiar, and automatized-is to invite disaster.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Success, Spiritual, Jobs

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the door to distraction. It invites connectivity and clicking and purchasing. The closed network of a printed book, on the other hand, seems to offer greater serenity. It harks back to a pre-jacked-in age. Cloth, paper, ink: For these read helmet, cuirass, shield. They afford a degree of protection and make possible a less intermediated, less fractured experience. They guard our aloneness. That is why I love them, and why I read printed books still.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Love, Book, Reading

  Mohsin Hamid (2014). “Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London”, p.81, Penguin UK

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• No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

  Dolly Parton

  Christmas, Niece, Home

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• If your life consistently bears no fruit, God will intervene to discipline you. If your life bears some fruit, God will intervene to prune you. If your life bears a lot of fruit, God will invite you to abide more deeply with Him.

  Bruce Wilkinson

  Christian, Discipline, Fruit

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• I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air . . . and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a great wasteland.

  Newton N. Minow

  Eye, Air, Goes On

  Speech before National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, D.C., 9 May 1961

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• We have so much, yet many Americans feel dissatisfied. Somehow the full table, symbol of abundance to the pilgrims, is not enough. We yearn for something far beyond the material satisfaction. Find your place in history this Thanksgiving by stretching beyond your table. Celebrate your survival by offering peace and sharing with your neighbors. Make the shift from in illogical feeling of lack to the recognition of abundance. Invite the Spirit to your feast, and prepare to feed the world.

  Jennifer James

  Thanksgiving, Offering, Feelings

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• If you are at a hard place in life, hesitant to ask for help, God invites you to ask Him so He can meet your need.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Law, Appreciate

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• Advent, this powerful liturgical season that we are beginning, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It is an invitation to understand that the individual events of the day are hints that God is giving us, signs of the attention he has for each one of us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Powerful, Giving, Silence

  Pope Benedict XVI (2012). “Holy Days: Meditations on the Feasts, Fasts, and Other Solemnities of the Church”, p.6, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from-each day. It reads, "No matter if a tree grows to more than a thousand feet in height, each leaf, each day, must return to its roots for nourishment."

  Mary Ellen W. Smoot

  Wall, Home, Roots

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• Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.

  Brian Herbert

  Fear, Predator, Aggression

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson (2010). “Dune: The Butlerian Jihad”, p.328, Macmillan

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• Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

  Charlie Munger

  Mean, Mimicking, Regression

  "Here's a 10 point plan to invest like Charlie Munger" by John Szramiak, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2016.

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• I invite you to read again the full accounts of this inspired vision. Study them, ponder them, and apply them to your daily life. In modern terms we might say we are invited to "get a grip." We must hold on tight to the iron rod and never let go.

  Ann M. Dibb

  Letting Go, Iron, Vision

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• It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that is permissible in good society, and give it as early if not earlier, than it can be learned through any other reliable medium; to give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interest involved; to make of the columns of The New York Times a forum for the consideration of all questions of public importance, and to that end to invite intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion.

  Adolph Ochs

  New York, Party, Intelligent

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• Invite them all in. Nip out the back door. Phone the police and tell them your house is being burgled.

  Mike Harding

  Humorous, Phones, Doors

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• Voices of the glorified urge us onward. They who have passed from the semblances of time to the realities of eternity call upon us to advance. The rest that awaits us invites us forward. We do not pine for our rest before God wills it. We long for no inglorious rest. We are thankful rather for the invaluable training of difficulty, the loving discipline of danger and strife. Yet in the midst of it all the prospect of rest invites us heavenward. Through all, and above all, God cries, "Go forward!" "Come up higher!

  William James

  Reality, Voice, Discipline

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 564, 1895.

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• the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live inside another person's skin. It creates empathy. And that's the antidote to bigotry. The novel doesn't just tell you about another life, which is what a newspaper would do. It makes you live another life, inhabit another perspective. And that's very important.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Perspective, Empathy, Political

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• Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.

  Lois Wyse

  Mother, Children, Sleep

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• The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Names, World

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• He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

  Samuel Johnson

  Extravagance, Poverty, Corruption

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.21

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• Wicked companions invite us to hell.

  Henry Fielding

  Wicked, Hell, Companion

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• landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.

  Patricia Hampl

  Stories, Landscape, Beloved

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Spillville: A Collaboration”, Milkweed Editions

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