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• Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages.

  Katharine Weber

  Children, Age, Narrative

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• Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes from the pages of a theology text. But the invitation to know God - truly know Him - is always an invitation to suffer. Not to suffer alone, but to suffer with Him.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Ivory Tower, Icons, Suffering

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty”, p.137, Zondervan

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• Your government has problems...my government has problems. I can't be a judge. All I can do is be an ambassador of love. I'm a musician, not a soldier, and if I'm invited to a place in order to play and bring love, I'll always accept the invitation.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Government, Israel, Order

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• So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Team, Play, Magic

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• I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.

  Henry Ford

  Real, Progress, Might

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.44, 谷月社

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• One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day.

  Edouard de Pomiane

  Lunch, Next Day, May

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• A full relationship is what God offers to those who come to God by Jesus. Imagine this! An open invitation to become a member of the royal family and a joint-heir with the Son of God.

  R. T. Kendall

  Christian, Jesus, Son

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• To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.

  Jack Kornfield

  Joy, Sorrow, Attention

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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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• The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about - was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. [...] That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.

  Adam Gopnik

  Fear, Real, Self

  "Hurricane Irene: Storm Warnings". www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2011.

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• An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Creativity, Orchids, Innovation

  "Pantone's Radiant Orchid is 2014's Color of the Year" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Phones, Encounters, Events

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.

  Susie Orbach

  Stars, Movie Star, Models

  "Body confidence and the new political line on beauty" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

  Archibald Alexander

  Children, Men, Miserable

  Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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• I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.

  M. Ward

  Artist, Years, Careers

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• The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.

  Charles Bass

  Technology, Government, Design

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• It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I''m having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.

  Jack Dorsey

  Coffee, Matter, Foursquare

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• Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Real, Challenges, World

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• It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.

  Curtis Stone

  Thinking, People, Add

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• Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Knowledge, Sloth

  Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti, Samuel Johnson (1778). “A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences. To which is Added an English Grammar for the Use of the Italians”, p.324

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• I am the owner of my choices. I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold regardless of how aware I am of why or how I come to possess that particular perspective. It takes courage to look into the mirror of our souls, absent excuses. I will look into that mirror little bits at a time. SEE and ACT. SEE what I can bear to see and ACT upon what I am able. This is the heart of a gentle invitation to personal responsibility.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, Responsibility, Mirrors

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• Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Expression

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.34, Conari Press

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• I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits. When I set my keys in the place I, with practice, always set my keys... I do not lose them. In many instances an ordered external structure can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered, creative and unbounded inner structure.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Writing, Doors, Practice

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• Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.

  Edward Gibbon

  Attachment, History, Important

  Edward Gibbon, William George Smith (1857). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.175

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• Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Secret, Wonder

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