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• If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.

  David Horowitz

  Past, Cases, Grievance

  David Horowitz (2000). “Hating Whitey: And Other Progressive Causes”, Spence Pub

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• Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for separation: choose an arbitrary dividing line and then treat it as a self-evident law of nature.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Law, Self, Lines

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• The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat.

  Preet Bharara

  Bells, Pearls, Next

  "Congress' Profound Failure on Cybersecurity". abcnews.go.com. August 11, 2012.

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• I ask the citizens of this Republic whether such a state of things is to be suffered to pass unnoticed, and the hearts of widows, orphans, and patriots to be broken, and their wrongs left without redress? No! I invoke the genius of our Constitution. I appeal to the patriotism of Americans to stop this unlawful and unholy procedure; and pray that God may defend this nation from the dreadful effects of such outrages.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, Heart, America

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• Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.

  Zachary Taylor

  Care, Small Beginnings, Eminence

  John J. Farrell, Zachary Taylor, United States. President (1849-1850 : Taylor), United States. President (1850-1853 : Fillmore) (1971). “Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Dear friends, sometimes we may be tempted to allow ourselves be overtaken by laziness or despondency, especially when faced with the hardships and trials of life. In these cases, do not lose heart, but invoke the Holy Spirit, so that with the gift of fortitude He can lift our hearts and communicate new vigor and enthusiasm to our lives and our following Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Heart, May

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• 'Hail, you who are highly favored, the Lord is with you' (Lk. 1:28)! Thus does the holy Church invoke the most holy Virgin, the Mother of God. But the Lord is also with every pious soul that believes in Him. The Lord's abiding with the Virgin Mary before she conceived the Savior is not a particularity proper to the most pure Virgin alone. The Lord is with every believing soul: 'The Lord is with you.' These words may be said to everyone who keeps the Lord's commandments.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Mother, Believe

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• Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the more extraordinary his life becomes. What emerges is something grander precisely because it is human, to the extent that his actual life reveals itself worthy of the word 'legendary'.

  Lesley Hazleton

  Reality, Legends, Facts

  Lesley Hazleton (2013). “The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad”, p.14, Penguin

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• Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Rights, Order

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.57, Harvard University Press

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• Wholeness invokes balance.

  M. J. Ryan

  Balance, Wholeness

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• If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

  John Ralston Saul

  Technology, Class, Giving

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.

  Erica Brown

  Teacher, Class, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.

  Brander Matthews

  Ideas, Nails, Aids

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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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• And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Favors, Emancipation Proclamation, Almighty

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• Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Real, Diversity, Tolerance

  "Calming our fears" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2007.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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 think the issue will come up after the election of the new Tory leader. They may well decide to call an election. What the British people need now is stability. Stability to retain their jobs, stability to protect those working conditions, and we need a plan from this government now on how they're going to approach the negotiations for leaving the European Union before they invoke Article 50.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Philosophy, Evil

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Situation, Compensation

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

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• I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others' ideas, to be rational and/or emotional, to be confident or admit doubt.

  Marty Nemko

  Believe, Emotional, Ideas

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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