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• Most of us live our lives desperately trying to conceal the anguishing gap between our polished, aspirational, representational selves and our real, human, deeply flawed selves. Dunham lives hers in that gap, welcomes the rest of the world into it with boundless openheartedness, and writes about it with the kind of profound self-awareness and self-compassion that invite us to inhabit our own gaps and maybe even embrace them a little bit more, anguish over them a little bit less.

  Maria Popova

  Real, Writing, Compassion

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• We don't always know the details of our future. We do not know what lies ahead. We live in a time of uncertainty. We are surrounded by challenges on all sides. Occasionally discouragement may sneak in to our day; frustration may invite itself into our thinking; doubt might enter about the value of our work. In these dark moments Satan whispers in our ears that we will never be able to succeed, that the price isn't work the effort, and that our small part will never make a difference. He, the father of all lies, will try to prevent us from seeing the end from the beginning.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Lying, Father, Dark

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• I opposed annexing in areas around our city borders, because I knew that if neighborhoods wanted to be a part of the city, well, they would mandate themselves in and invite themselves into a city. That's just one example of even on a local level how dangerous it is for a politician to start thinking they know more than that individual family, that individual business.

  Sarah Palin

  Thinking, Cities, Borders

  "Exclusive: Sarah Palin on U.S. Economy, National Bus Tour". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. June 5, 2011.

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• My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all "movies" for me. I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.

  Werner Herzog

  Decision, Fiction, Way

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2007.

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• I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.

  William Gibson

  Tea, Trying, Zeitgeist

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 22, 2007.

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• The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.

  Hans Bellmer

  Real, Body, Anagrams

  Hans Bellmer, Stephen S. Prokopoff, Krannert Art Museum (1991). “Hans Bellmer, photographs: 23 February to 31 March 1991”

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• In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.

  Roger Scruton

  Party, Views, Imagination

  Roger Scruton (2015). “Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation”, p.139, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Let this Christmas Day remind us that Christ came to invite us to offer love to ALL humankind and to open the door of God's Kingdom to Every soul.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Doors, Soul

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• I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite them to share that honor and privilege with us.

  Angelina Grimke

  Children, Men, Honor

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• There are two ways of reaching the people. One way is to invite them to come to you, the other way is to go to them.

  R. A. Torrey

  Two, People, Way

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• Sometimes you read something and it's just -- it doesn't invite a reader....Sometimes you read something and it's not saying, 'oh come in, come in have a seat. I'm going to tell you what happened.' Perhaps my writing comes off as conversational...and that takes effort.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Effort, Community

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• If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Inspirational, Motivation, Opportunity

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• Your friends will need you, too, someday. Maybe not in the same way, maybe not in cash and shelter, but they'll need you - to listen without judging, to invite them over when they're lonely, to show up for their events, to register in whatever way matters to them that they matter to you. Be on the lookout for these opportunities to give back, and do whatever is in your power not to miss many of them.

  Carolyn Hax

  Lonely, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Well, all cricket invites attention.

  Nita Ambani

  Attention, Cricket, Wells

  "I feel sorry for Lalit Modi: Nita Ambani". NDTV interview, www.ndtv.com. April 28, 2010.

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• I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument.

  Nicolas Cage

  Feelings, Needs, Actors

  "Nicolas Cage: 'People think I'm not in on the joke'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2013.

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• You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Inspirational, Sides, Action

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• People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

  James Branch Cabell

  Marriage, Love Is, People

  "The Cream of the Jest".

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• Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Change, Men, Law

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• He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

  Abu Bakr

  Complaints, Caliphs

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• Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

  Maya Angelou

  Sensual, Tables, Want

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• We want to invite the world to Make in India, make India as the base for manufacturing electronic goods.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Development, World

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• Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And He invites us all to forgive each other.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Hurt, People

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• If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friends, Mind, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.86, Wordsworth Editions

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• People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.

  Carol Burnett

  Women, People, Dinner

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• A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.

  David Ross Locke

  Dog, Politics, Bricks

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