Debbie Reynolds
Actress, Singer
"I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well."
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Receiving
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Stephen Harper
Politician
"In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance."
Louise Hay
Author, Motivational Speaker
"I am the joy of life expressing and receiving in perfect rhythm."
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature"
Jose Saramago
Writer
"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."
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"Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help."
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"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
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"Yeah, size is no guarantee of power,” said George. “Look at Ginny.” “What d’you mean?” said Harry. “You’ve never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?"
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"Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take."
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"The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it."
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"Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought."
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"Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?"
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"The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy."
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"Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought."
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"Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God’s acceptance and approval of us."
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"Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature, art and religion."
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"I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air."
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"The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel."
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"A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath."
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"Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving."
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"The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it."
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"Gratitude is what starts the receiving process."
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"Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline."
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"Asking is the beginning of receiving."
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"The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions."
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