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• I wanted to do is kind of invoke that and then dive into that kind of repetition as a DJ thing because DJing you hear beats, like "boom, boom, boom, bap, bap." You know hip hop, house, techno. So how do you translate between those electronic motifs and the motifs of the landscape itself? That is what I wanted to go for.

  DJ Spooky

  House, Hip Hop, Landscape

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.

  Patti Smith

  Jesus, Records, Firsts

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• I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the hard candy shell that gives to the other, or one is the apparition, the ghost-image that invokes the other.

  Alex Lemon

  Giving, Balance, Shells

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack. In other words, what happens for most of us is that we are tempted and we are taught, we are trained as it were, to meet limited circumstances with limited thought.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Taught, Circumstances

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Your perception of the world is ... really a fabrication of your model of the world. You don't really see light or sound. You perceive it because your model says this is how the world is, and those patterns invoke the model. It's hard to believe, but it really is true.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Believe, Light, Perception

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• No one who shall invoke this Mother of Grace with devotion and perseverance can possibly perish forever.

  John Eudes

  Mother, Perseverance, Forever

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• We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Teamwork, Hero, Sacrifice

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• Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.

  David Foster Wallace

  Sometimes, Tricky, Please

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• Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!

  Charles Darwin

  Ignorance, Law, Profound

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.3445, Delphi Classics

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• God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash. Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who'd never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were straight-up amazing. After all, hadn't God made both of them? But people were like that, she'd noticed. They'd invoke Godly privilege at the weirdest of times and for the most stupid reasons.

  Libba Bray

  War, Stupid, Grandma

  "Beauty Queens". Book by Libba Bray, May 24, 2011.

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• If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

  Sam Harris

  Logical Arguments, Should, Evidence

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• Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to it. If we can invoke peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large. Peace will come about in the world from the perfection of individuals. If you have peace, I have peace, he has peace, and she has peace, then automatically universal peace will dawn.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Two, Perfection, Dawn

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Jobs, Believe, People

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2013

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• When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Two, Issues

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.

  Stephen Hawking

  Light, Blue, Law

  "The Grand Design". Book by Stephen Hawking, 2010.

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• The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.

  Leonard Read

  Government, Justice, Liberty

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• Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world.

  Max Lucado

  Spiritual, Prayer, Wall

  Max Lucado (2007). “Max on Life: Discovering the Power of Prayer: Discovering the Power of Prayer”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Shadow and dust shall be reclaimed, earth sealing the tomb from which you came. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, warrior return, breathe your last. Air, earth, fire, water, hear my voice, obey my order, thrice around your grave do bound, evil sink into the ground. I now invoke the law of three, this is my will, so mote it be.

  Christine Feehan

  Warrior, Fire, Air

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• Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a "mutual admiration society"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Sweet, Reality

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.

  Michael Behe

  Serendipity, Luck, Mutation

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• An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

  William Feather

  Wedding, Police, Trouble

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• Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

  Brian Greene

  Principles, Needs, Scientist

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• Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

  Steven Pinker

  Mind, Today, Genetics

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• If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him.

  Italo Calvino

  Kissing, Flavor, Taste

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• Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions.

  Stuart Wilde

  Life, Dream, Thinking

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