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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.

  Helen Keller

  Vision, Wonder, Infinite

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Annoying, Invitations

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.16

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• Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

  Sylvia Plath

  Acceptance, Winning, Past

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.205, Anchor

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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.

  Brené Brown

  Heart, Giving, Helping

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossibility of his becoming white... the Negros will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties.

  Carter G. Woodson

  White, Way, Becoming

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• Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview.

  Daniel Handler

  Jobs, Cutting, Enemy

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• There is only one safeguard against error, and that is to be established in the faith; and for that, there has to be prayerful and diligent study, and a receiving with meekness the engrafted Word of God. Only then are we fortified against the attacks of those who assail us.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Errors, Study, Meekness

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A.W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures - 1930-31, Volume 5 of 17”, p.73, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else's hourly failures to live up to divine standards. It means learning to forget myself on a regular basis in order to attend to the other selves in my vicinity. It means living so that "I'm only human" does not become an excuse for anything. It means receiving the human condition as blessing and not curse, in all its achingly frail and redemptive reality.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Mean, Blessing

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• Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly....As a scientist I remain skeptical.

  Joanne Simpson

  Organization, Global Warming, Speak

  "Buying the Vacant Illinois Senate Seat?" by Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2008.

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• I am the father of a 9 year-old son whose descent into the world of autism began at the age of 7 months old after receiving numerous vaccinations in a single day; the same story that is told by thousands of other parents of children throughout the country whose healthy, normally developing children have become autistic after vaccinations.

  Rick Rollens

  Country, Children, Father

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• People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving love. Without at least a little, we can become someone living n a prison of our own making, where the walls are so thick that no one can get in or out.

  Jodee Blanco

  Wall, Receiving Love, People

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• There comes a point in time when you must know that everything you have already given or done is enough. This is not something anyone else can tell you. You must know. Giving without receiving doesn't prove anything except that you know how to be taken advantage of.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Taken, Giving, Done

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jan 22, 2016

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• Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Pride, Benefits, Glory

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1981). “On Loving God: Selection from Sermons”, Greenwood Press

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• One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures.

  Samson Raphael Hirsch

  Giving, Chains, Glorious

  Samson Raphael Hirsch (1942). “The nineteen letters of Ben Uziel: being a spiritual presentation of the principles of Judaism”

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• We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery. We in the church are saying no. We are prepared to live by what God says, not what you say. Man shall not sleep with man, woman shall not sleep with woman.

  Peter Akinola

  Religious, Sleep, Men

  Associated Press Interview, December 2003.

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• I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Degrees, Excitement, Physics

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• Receiving oral sex from an ugly person is like rock climbing; you should never look down.

  Stewart Francis

  Sex, Rocks, Climbing

  Stewart Francis (2013). “Pun Direction”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Reading, Practice

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• There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it. How many times in your life have you been unable to let in someone's love or even pushed it away? Much as we proclaim the wish to be truly loved, we are often afraid of that, and so find it difficult to open to love or let it all the way in.

  John Welwood

  Giving, Perfect, Scary

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every soul, irrespective of nation, country, or position.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Children, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2011). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.56, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.

  Dan Lipinski

  Car, Needs, Firsts

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• Jesus wanted to show us his heart as the heart that loved so deeply. For this reason we have this commemoration today, especially of God's love. God loved us, he loved us with such great love. I am thinking of what St Ignatius told us.... He pointed out two criteria on love. The first: love is expressed more clearly in actions than in words. The second: there is greater love in giving than in receiving.

  Pope Francis

  Love, Jesus, Heart

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• Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

  Carla Bley

  Listening, Important, Music Is

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• Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.

  Napoleon Hill

  Brain, Vibrations, Broadcasting

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.178, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.

  Nicole Kidman

  Receiving Love, Giving, Different

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Jan 16, 2017

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