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"Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors." (On U.S. and Soviet joint scientific ventures, spoken during his inaugural address, 20 January 1961)

- John F. Kennedy

For the most part, if they are nonindigenous to the state and they`re not endangered or threatened, they`re not regulated, ... Most of it is going to fall between the cracks. If it`s not indigenous to the state, then it`s up to the county or the city to invoke ordinances.

- Jack Baker

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They`re all necessary and they`re all valid.

- Maya Lin
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You can set policy to recognize certain filter triggers. When it recognizes specific attacks, we can set an action to invoke quarantine and drop that malicious traffic. You can also set to quarantine on specific filters.

- Jason Wright

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

- Alex Eckelberry

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

- Alex Ward

Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush.

- Alfred Hamilton Barr

Then their imagination could work wonders upon wonders and invoke the shades of the philosophers, who would instruct them in their art.

- Amos Kimunya

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

- Amy McFarland

(Defenders say she can easily navigate from past to future.) I would quote her husband who often said -- and it`s absolutely a truism -- that people vote the future, not the past, ... Rhetorically she will invoke the halcyon days of the 1990s. The fact is she knows that people are concerned very much on the future and that she very much has to address that.

- Archie Seale

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.

- Barbara Ferraro