"Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history." — Pierre de Coubertin

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• There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke… — Margaret Atwood
• Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes… — Watchman Nee
• Bassist Steve Uccello's Symmetria is filled with cool and unique sounds, textures, and musical ideas, evoking an imagined atmosphere of… — Bryan Beller
• If you've got somebody's aspects in your experience that you don't like, there's only one reason they're there. You keep… — Esther Hicks
• It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that… — Pope Benedict XVI
• The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that… — Antonio Machado
• It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor… — C.S. Lewis
• The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object… — M.C. Escher
• The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the… — Robert K. Merton
• Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that… — David Bentley Hart
• Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in… — Keith Donohue
• Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude… — Abraham Zaleznik

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