In the old days, movies used to invite us to sit back and gaze at monsters, to really drink them in.

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Afterward, you can retire to the cozy den at one end of the restaurant, where leather armchairs and overstuffed couches invite visitors to sit and read the paper, or take an afternoon snooze.

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Change either breaks into your life, or you open the door and invite it to sit down and have a cup of tea.

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Invite them to sit on your side of the table and look at the problem not as a contest but as a mutual problem to solve.

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An elderly couple invite me to sit.

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John McCain used to invite reporters to come and sit with him and chew the fat for hours every day.

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Late on hot afternoons he would pull up and invite tired store managers to sit in the van and relax with a cold soda.

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Diversity is when you invite many different kinds of people to sit at your table.

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