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• An absolute joy to read - it stimulates and engages. Westney is asking new questions not addressed elsewhere . . . and you will be drawn in by the author's inviting, yet quietly compelling style.

  Patricia Powell

  Writing, Joy, Style

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• I came in the door, I said it before
  I never let the mic magnetize me no more.
  But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme,
  I can't hold it back...I'm looking for the line.
  Taking off my coat, clearing my throat,
  My rhyme will be kicking until I hit my last note.

  Rakim

  Rap, Fighting, Doors

  "Song: Eric B. Is President (Album:Paid in Full)". 1987.

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• Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing,
  the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Waiting, Anxiety

  Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan (1968). “A Personal Anthology”, p.202, Grove Press

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• The secret art of inviting blessings.  The spiritual medicine of all diseases. Morning and night, join your hands in prayer and repeat these words out loud and in your heart for the improvement of body and mind.

  Mikao Usui

  Spiritual, Morning, Art

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• The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls.

  Carl Sagan

  Ocean, Sea, Water

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen,
  Delightful industry enjoy'd at home,
  An Nature, in her cultivated trim
  Dress'ed to his taste, inviting him abroad -
  Can he want occupation who has these?

  William Cowper

  Friendship, Book, Home

  William Cowper, “The Task: Book Iii. -- The Garden”

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• The trap into which all writers have, will, or should fall into, of writing The Great American Watchamacallit, is such an uncluttered and inviting one that from time to time I'm sure even the greatest have to pull themselves up short by the Shift key to remind themselves that it is story first that they should write.

  Harlan Ellison

  Fall, Writing, Keys

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• It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Kingdoms, Action, Possibility

  Walter Rauschenbusch (2008). “A Gospel for the Social Awakening: Selections from the Writings of Walter Rauschenbusch”, p.45, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear,
  After so much reciting:
  So, if you don't object, my dear,
  We'll try a glass of bitter beer -
  I think it looks inviting.

  Lewis Carroll

  Beer, Thinking, Glasses

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.623, Race Point Pub

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• The coaches hate each other, the players hate each other... There's no calling each other after the game and inviting each other out to dinner. But the feeling's mutual: They don't like us, and we don't like them. There's no need to hide it, they know it, and we know it. It's going to be one of those black and blue games.

  Hines Ward

  Hate, Player, Blue

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• Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an eternal conversation in which the ancient poets remain contemporary, a conversation inviting us into other languages and cultures even as poetry transcends language and culture, returning us again and again to primal rhythms and sounds.

  Sam Hamill

  Government, Sound, Culture

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• Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Friendship, Night, Pygmalion

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• As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Destiny, Long, Narrative

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• If I could ever be on a Missy Elliott record, I could then die. Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige - I love hearing them interviewed, I love the way they talk about their art. They're very self-assured, they're funny, they're inviting. I love it.

  Neko Case

  Art, Self, Records

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• The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Church, Hunger And Thirst

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• Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

  Moby

  Beautiful, Emotional, People

  Interview with Neil Strauss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2009.

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• There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques.

  Jim Rohn

  Fundamentals, Antiques, Littles

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 01, 2016

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• The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Nice, Character, Thinking

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• Moreover, the whole purpose of God's mighty acts is to bring man to know Him by faith; and Scripture knows no foundation for faith but the spoken word of God, inviting our trust in Him on the basis of what He has done for us.

  J. I. Packer

  Men, Foundation, Purpose

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.92, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• SnookiLove is really cute and it's inviting and welcoming. All my lines are like my personality: they are fun, they are outgoing, they are sexy, but not slutty.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Cute, Sexy, Fun

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• When designers intentionally trick users into inviting friends or blasting a message to their social networks, they may see some initial growth, but it comes at the expense of users' goodwill and trust. When people discover they've been duped, they vent their frustration and stop using the product.

  Nir Eyal

  Frustration, People, Growth

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.31, Penguin

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• Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury something and Miss Havisham refuses, as it were, to bury the corpse). Like Hamlet, she's focused on what everyone would rather not know or would like to forget, and she seems crazy / stuck as well as bitter, but she's also a perfect prototype of a performance artist. She's intentionally hard to deal with inviting the audience to remain with the violated body, the evidence of violence.

  Laura Mullen

  Crazy, Fighting, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I thought, well, if we're inviting an audience, let's do it right. So I put in a proper studio audience at our studios in Los Angeles and it was just a little showcase and it was just for fun.

  Brian Henson

  Fun, Littles, Los Angeles

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.

  Bob Weir

  Adventure, Littles, Baggage

  Source: medium.com

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• I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Voice, People, Scary

  Source: therumpus.net

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