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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.

Emotional, Win, Cannot

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

Nature, Her, She

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

Government, Law, Become

Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Else, Often

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
Chogyam Trungpa

Energy, Compassion, Longer

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
Abu Bakr

Happiness, Complaint, Avoids

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

Work, Time, Again

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

Music, Person, Done

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
Francis Ford Coppola

Passion, Chaos, Large

I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.
Marlee Matlin

Different, Afraid, Questions

He who forgives readily only invites offense.
Pierre Corneille

Offense, Forgives, Readily

He who pardons easily invites offense.
Pierre Corneille

Offense, Easily, Pardons

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.
Sarah Palin

Government, Winners, Everyone

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.
Ninon de L'Enclos

Today, Passion, Everything

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

Find, Around, Fields

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

Trust, Art, Fun

I'm not comfortable leaving my house. If someone invites me over, I would go but it's not like I'm one to say, 'Hey, let's hang out at your house tonight.'
Courteney Cox

Someone, Leaving, House

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

Dad, Live, Night

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

Mean, Off, Disappear

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

Problem, Between, Subject

You know, anyone who invites me to do something makes me feel special.
Marvin Hamlisch

Special, Makes, Anyone

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
Edward Coke

Success, Deeds, Crime

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

Dark, Moon, Fine

When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.
Billy Baldwin

Power, Famous, Rock

We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.
Bob Livingston

Government, School, Trying

They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them.
Charles Farrar Browne

Drink, Anybody, Impunity

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