"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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"If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are human beings like you, who are receiving something from you."
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"Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts."
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"Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it."
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"Ask yourself constantly, "What is the right thing to do?" Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest."
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"We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise."
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"For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with."
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"Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations."
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"Remember this. We are always looking for problems to solve, and to solve problems we need to be ready for clues. And you will never be in the receiving frame of mind if you – never – shut - up!"
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"The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money. Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the Treasury should accept more than a fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could without difficulty be provided."
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"I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast . . . would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it."
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"Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline."
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"I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense."
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"I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it."
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"Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection."
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"Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment."
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