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Path does not spam users. Invites on Path are never sent without a user's consent - any allegations to the contrary are false. -- Dave Morin
He who avoids complaint invites happiness. -- Abu Bakr
They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them. -- Charles Farrar Browne
I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer. -- Marlee Matlin
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. -- Francis Ford Coppola
A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning. -- Katherine Paterson
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy. -- Chogyam Trungpa
I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me. -- Andrew Wyeth
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. -- Henry David Thoreau
Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean. -- Gary Ross
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The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur. -- Alan Parsons
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
The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't. -- Arthur L. Herman
I violated, apparently, an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly, if that invites discomfort, I welcome it. I don't think there's enough discomfort in journalism, especially in Washington. -- Mark Leibovich
The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching. -- Jean Piaget
To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It's the only way to avoid more Fergusons. -- Jesse Jackson
Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process. -- Leonard Cohen
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much. -- Rose Kennedy
There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior. -- David Byrne
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The best counsel for us to give young people is that they can arrive back to Heavenly Father only as they are guided and corrected by the Spirit of God. So if we are wise, we will encourage, praise, and exemplify everything which invites the companionship of the Holy Ghost. -- Henry B. Eyring
If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood. -- David A. Bednar
In order to figure this artmaking stuff out, it's trial and error and experimentation, and takes some time and hard thinking. Putting work out in many forms and stages is an extension of how I see things. I feel the art process is best served when it invites comments and constructive criticism from people. -- Jim Goldberg
Glamour invites us to live in a different world. It has to simultaneously be mysterious, a little bit distant - that's why, often in these glamour shots, the person is not looking at the audience, it's why sunglasses are glamorous - but also not so far above us that we can't identify with the person. -- Virginia Postrel
I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with. -- Jimmy Fallon
Frankness invites frankness. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reverence invites Revelation -- Boyd K. Packer
Fear manifested invites danger... -- Lord Chesterfield
Well, all cricket invites attention. -- Nita Ambani
Who timidly requests invites refusal. -- Seneca the Younger
Do not overeat; that invites disease. -- Umar
He who pardons easily invites offense. -- Pierre Corneille
Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency. -- Wayne Muller
Freedom breeds uncertainty; uncertainty invites chaos. -- R.J. Leahy
He who forgives readily only invites offense. -- Pierre Corneille
Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean. -- Charlie Munger
Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones. -- Lord Chesterfield
He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime. -- Publilius Syrus
He who asks with timidity invites a refusal. -- Seneca the Younger
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds -- Edward Coke
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it -- Samuel Johnson
Repentance is a change of behavior which invites forgiveness. -- Theodore M. Burton
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. -- Samuel Johnson
How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality. -- Andre Gide
extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery. -- Dodie Smith
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Letting your guard down, even for a moment, invites death. -- Peter V. Brett
I drink with impunity...or anyone else who invites me. -- W. C. Fields
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. -- Gretel Ehrlich
Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator. -- Brian Herbert
Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin. -- Fulton J. Sheen
We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression. -- Ronald Reagan
God invites us today to live a great story with Him. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction. -- William Zinsser
Heartfelt and willing obedience invites the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. -- David A. Bednar
For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it -- Hans Bellmer
We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness. -- Russell Crowe
You know, anyone who invites me to do something makes me feel special. -- Marvin Hamlisch
A beautiful idea is a beautiful door; it invites you to enter inside! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are. -- Timothy Keller
Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each movement reminds us that every moment invites a new opportunity for change. -- Tara Stiles
Observe everything silently, like a little bird! This invites the angels of wisdom! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep. -- William Shenstone
Ignore the misery. Custom invites you to ignore the misery.SHOW YOUR TONGUE -- Gunter Grass
Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand. -- Andrew Solomon
Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions -- Deepak Chopra
The Gospel, radiant with the glory of Christ's cross, constantly invites us to rejoice. -- Pope Francis
Smooth white skin invites something that will leave a trace, a kiss or a slap. -- Mason Cooley
Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize. -- Eric Ries
they're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner. -- Margery Wilson
Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony. -- Boyd K. Packer
I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion. -- Michael Keaton
Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis. -- Tom Hoover
A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable -- Roger Scruton
Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves. -- Paul Valery
From the heights of heaven Jesus Christ mercifully looks down upon you and graciously invites you there. -- Francis de Sales
God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. -- Lawrence Wright
Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam. -- Patrick Henry
In every storm there is a 'Peace! Be still' Christ will speak where prayer's call invites Him. -- Jack W. Hayford
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. -- Cormac McCarthy
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading -- C. S. Lewis
A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. -- Ambrose Bierce
The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation. -- Fred Hoyle
His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home. -- William Cowper
Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge. -- Francis Bacon
In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent. -- Paulo Coelho
I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response. -- Fran Lebowitz
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances. -- Toni Morrison
Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live. -- Bill Hybels
Promoting what you don't like, invites more of it to your doorstep. Beat the right drum. ~T.F. Hodge -- T.F. Hodge
God invites us to start and continue each day with Him. I have found it wise to accept His request. -- Eric Samuel Timm
A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself. -- Bobby Ray Inman
Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists. -- Heywood Hale Broun
We don't choose what we will do for God; He invites us to join Him where He wants to involve us. -- Henry Blackaby
If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation. -- Barbara Mertz
Danger invites rescue. ... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had. -- Benjamin Cardozo
He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so. -- Seneca the Younger
Winter invites white; white invites silence; silence invites peace. You see, there is so much peace in walking on the snow! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young." - Cara -- Terry Goodkind
No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living. -- William Saroyan
No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it. -- R.K. Narayan
When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels. -- David Platt
At this and every season, our Savior invites us to join with HIM and others to offer the priceless gift of JOY. -- Henry B. Eyring
I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem. -- Alison Hawthorne Deming
To destroy that which seeks to destroy me, God invites me to stand against it until it stands down and then falls down. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it. -- Tony Kushner
When you leave your home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you (it is your behavior that invites trouble from them). -- Gichin Funakoshi
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Taking risks is part of life, but to take risks invites the possibilty of failure and rejection, but also the possibility of true happines. -- Morten Høgsberg
Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid. -- Lord Chesterfield
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. -- George Stillman Hillard
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
A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream. -- Steven Erikson
Before we apply Joshua to our lives, we need to make sure which side of the Jordan we are living on. Militarism invites God's wrath. -- Preston Sprinkle

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