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• Everyone wants something real, something that was created to invoke a positive feeling.

  Mikey Way

  Real, Want Something, Feelings

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• Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will invoke the same curious amusement as rain and sun gods do today. Or perhaps our god will simply be shelved along with Zeus and Jupiter. Some day. But until then, we suffer the consequences of a population that believes in the absence of evidence and, more curiously, rejects an objective reality that conflicts with beliefs easily proven false.

  Jeff Schweitzer

  Rain, Believe, Past

  "Pareidolia in Politics: The Face of Faith’s Corrupting Influence". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Work, Home, Night

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don't invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to fly away home. Their house is not on fire. Your roses are, with aphids, which the ladybugs are feeding on - and you can bless yourself that they have come to your rescue.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Home, Fire, Rose

  Eleanor Perenyi (2010). “Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden”, p.173, Modern Library

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• The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism.

  William J. Brennan

  Military, Temptation, Healthy

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• To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state

  Albert Bandura

  States, Efficacy, Grants

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• I never expected that, 20 years later, Chucky would be considered a classic, if I may invoke that term. A golden oldie anyway, something that people still care about 20 years later.

  David Kirschner

  Years, People, Would Be

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public does not fully understand the world into which it is going. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. Those leaders who do not are ultimately judged failures, even though they may be popular at the moment.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  People, Leader, Vision

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