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• Girls' hearts flourish in homes where they are seen and invited to become ever more themselves. Parents who enjoy their daughters are giving them and the world a great gift. Mothers in particular have the opportunity to offer encouragement to their daughters by inviting them into their feminine world and by treasuring their daughters' unique beauty.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.99, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• People often wonder just what trainers give the sheepdog in exchange for its boundless willingness. Food treats and praise sit on the trainer's shelf, untouched, unused. The sheepdog is shown its possibilities, he learns what life is like for a good dog and is invited to walk in a rational world whose farthest boundaries are defined by grace.

  Donald McCaig

  Dog, People, Giving

  Donald McCaig (2014). “Nop's Hope: A Novel”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.

  Stephen Fry

  Secret, Lessons, Taught

  "Stephen Fry's Idea of Greatness". bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• In my country (Belgium), if you sit beside the phone long enough, it will ring and you will be invited to play rugby for Belgium!

  Jacques Rogge

  Country, Phones, Play

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• As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

  Norman Lamm

  Law, Privacy, Results

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• The Bible is teh means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility and service. Secured by the knowledge that in Christ, our origin... and destination is God, we will yield the fruit of service to God. This is the "so what" of our Bible reading. Does it shape our spirits in love and humility? Does it lead us more fully into life with God? (Life with God, p. 34-35)

  Richard J. Foster

  Jesus, Reading, Mean

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• The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

  Theophrastus

  Ambition, Men, Dinner

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• My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new people; you haven't made any mistakes yet. You have a new place to live and new dishes and this new kind of, like, identity, this 'we' that gets invited everywhere together now. Why, sometimes your wife will have a brand-new name, even.

  Anne Tyler

  Cousin, Mistake, New Beginnings

  Anne Tyler (2012). “The Beginner's Goodbye”, p.122, Random House

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• A Christian is one who is invited... to join in the feast, to the joy of being saved, to the joy of being redeemed, to the joy of sharing life with Christ. This is a joy! You are called to a party!

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Party, Joy

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• The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.

  Saul Bellow

  Real, Ocean, Thinking

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• No one has the right to criticize you for how your body looks, but they will. One thing I've learned from experiencing this exact kind of criticism is that no one else can label your body except for you. No one gets to have a place in your mind if they weren't invited there by you. So please do me this one favor: Don't let their ugly words into your beautiful mind.

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Mind, Criticism

  "Taylor Swift's Heartwarming Message To Bullied Fan Will Literally Bring You To Tears" by Ariel Nagi, www.seventeen.com. January 28, 2015.

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• I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

  Edward Abbey

  Sloth, Heroic, Enterprise

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Photography, Artist, Men

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• I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.

  Perry Christie

  Country, People, Partnership

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• I wasn’t invited to be on staff at the Simpsons because they didn’t want any women on staff at the time.

  Mimi Pond

  Want, Staff

  "Mimi Pond roasts 'Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire,' the Simpsons premiere she wrote 25 years ago". Interview with Andy Dubbin, splinternews.com. December 18, 2014.

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• Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Numbers, Doe, Alive

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.108, A&C Black

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• A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . . . He professes publicly where everyone is invited to come and challenge, [and] at any time he must be willing and able to defend it openly against all comers. The degree is originally a chivalric device-a gauntlet of defiance to all rivals-and not a safe rampart or dug-out for a scholar to hide behind in safe immunity from any challenge.

  Hugh Nibley

  Challenges, Rivals, Safe

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• You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Blessed, World

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• True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Father, Endeavor, Participation

  Priscilla Shirer (2007). “Discerning the Voice of God: How to Recognize When God Speaks”, p.133, Moody Publishers

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• What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live… I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.

  Bob Goff

  Jesus, Kind, Type

  Bob Goff (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote speaker, my father [John Kenneth Galbraith]. The leading economists of the Austrian school- including von Hayek and von Haberler - returned for the occasion. And so my father took a moment to reflect on the economic triumphs of the Austrian Republic since the war, which, he said, "would not have been possible without the contribution of these men." They nodded - briefly - until it dawned on them what he meant. They'd all left the country in the 1930s.

  James K. Galbraith

  Country, War, Father

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• Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Party, Forever

  Benjamin Franklin, E. Sargent (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.418

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• When defeated ask yourself what mistakes invited the attack. This kind of positive thinking any fighter must possess.

  Wong Shun Leung

  Art, Mistake, Positive Thinking

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• A real friend will not visit you in prosperity unless he is invited, but when you are in adversity he will call without invitation.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Loyalty, Real, Adversity

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• If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot
  of different places, just write a Unix operating system.

  Linus Torvalds

  Writing, Different, World

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