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"I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves"
"We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable as we are, we must become lovable under false pretenses, as if we were something better than we are."
"Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise."
"Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy"
"Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information."
"Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies."
"The only way that you can ever know if something is of value to you is by the way it feels as you are receiving it"
"It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it."
"Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth."
"What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it."
"How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one"
"We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine."
"He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time"
"Giving with the intention of receiving really isn't giving, it's trading."
"If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma."
"Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed."
"I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain."
"Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed. That's the great Generosity of women and the great generosity of the Creator who worked it out is that there are no unilateral agreements on sexuality."
"Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer's character, until we hesitate tolay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies."
"I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for."
