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• A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chimerical fragrances able to evoke melancholic memories.

  Bentley Little

  Memories, Sadness, Loss

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• For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

  Rachael Taylor

  Memories, Stories, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.

  Richard Pascale

  Learning, Knowledge, Discovery

  Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin (2010). “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems”, p.112, Harvard Business Press

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• The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

  Madame de Stael

  Beautiful, Memories, Events

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• the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words evoke pictures and something altogether new is created, something different from the limits of my own skills and imagination. Something that is a marriage between your heart, mind, and body - and mine.

  Rebecca Wells

  Book, Heart, Skills

  Rebecca Wells (2009). “Little Altars Everywhere: Novel, A”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?

  Edward Abbey

  Waiting, Doe, Desert

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of the dead.

  Jean Lorrain

  Blood, Needs, Scent

  Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books

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• It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run but, it will never make you less afraid.

  Harriet Lerner

  Running, Brave, Want

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Sep 23, 2016

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• What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly.

  Phil Cousineau

  Heart, Awe And Wonder, Sacred

  Phil Cousineau (2012). “The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred”, p.30, Conari Press

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• It has no denim-toned house paint. Levi makes what is essentially a commodity: blue jeans. Its ads may evoke rugged outdoorsmanship, but Levi hasn't promoted any particular life style to sell other products.

  Naomi Klein

  Blue, Jeans, House

  Naomi Klein (2010). “No Logo 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.71, Vintage Canada

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• Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.

  Gerhart Hauptmann

  World, Resonance

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• Dave's playing and repertoire evokes memories of the golden era of Modern Jazz, and in addition to being a nice guy he happens to be a bebopper of the finest order.

  Chris Cortez

  Memories, Nice, Order

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• About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those I had seen in the houses of Russian peasants. When it was finished, the arrangement of the pieces of material seemed to me to evoke cubist conceptions and we then tried to apply the same process to other objects and paintings.

  Sonia Delaunay

  Son, Ideas, House

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• Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.

  Susan Sontag

  Heart, Appetite For Life, Mind

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• The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Perception, Tasks, Ministry

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• Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

  Erin Gruwell

  Writing, Empathy, Way

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• There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.

  Lionel Tiger

  Illumination, Anxiety, Wish

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• We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Strong, Powerful, Use

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Art, Believe, Struggle

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• How many girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them.

  Pope Pius XII

  Girl, Sheep, Feelings

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• Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.

  Henri Poincare

  Life, Math, Abstract

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• I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.

  Shakira

  Thinking, Feelings, Vision

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• Your mind has enormous hidden dimensions. Open yourselves completely to whatever reactions and emotions the world evokes from time to time. Accept them all without any reservation or resentment. By assimilating everything and all, your mind grows deeper, stabler and more enriched.

  Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

  Mind, World, Dimensions

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• There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

  William Ralph Inge

  Country, Military, Noble

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• Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.

  Arthur Koestler

  Fear, Innovation, Intellectual

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