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Letter "I" » invoked
«American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.»
Author: Evan Thomas
| About:
America and Americans,
Boys
| Keywords:
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«My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations»
Author: Peter William Atkins
| About:
Universe
| Keywords:
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«Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.»
Author: St. Francis de Sales
| Keywords:
assistance, invoke, invoked, invokes, invoking, temporal, The Angels
«Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.»
Author: Henry Kissinger
(Political scientist)
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
alchemy, invoke, invoked, invokes, invoking
«An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.»
Author: William Feather
| Keywords:
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«Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict [slavery] might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
aid, anticipated, assistance, astound, astounded, astounding, astounds, Evening Prayer, invoked, invokes, invoking, judged, Judge Not, looked-for, sweat, Wringing, wrings, wring from
«Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.»
Author: Confucius
| Keywords:
assistance, behalf, injuries, invoke, invoked, invokes, invoking, neighbor, reconciled, reconciles, reconciling
«Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.»
«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»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Adulthood,
Youth
| Keywords:
introspective, invoked, invokes, invoking
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