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• A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Men, Society, Coats

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• Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"!

  Danielle Steel

  Wedding Reception, Heard, Victoria

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• To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Men, Miracle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.81, Penguin

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• I must say, I feel the reception of my work is none of my business.

  Judith Butler

  Feels

  Source: ilga.org

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• A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it ... When the art in question is literature a complication arises, for to 'receive' significant words is always, in one sense, to 'use' them, to go through and beyond them to an imagined something which is not itself verbal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Poetry, Doe

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• The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the Sower, of the need for our loving, mortified reception and cultivation in our hearts and souls of the seeds and roots of the supernatural gifts and virtues necessary for progress in the ascetical/mystical ascent of our souls toward union with God and with the divine will for Creation and Kingdom

  John Stokes

  Heart, Garden, Roots

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• The Immaculate Reception became the Zapruder Film of sports.

  Stephen J. Dubner

  Sports, Film, Immaculate

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• Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and the Women's Institute on Wednesdays. It had hosted jumble sales and Jubilee celebrations, wedding receptions and wakes, and it smelled of all of these things: of stale clothes and coffee urns, and the ghosts of home-baked cakes and meat salads; of dust and human bodies; but primarily of aged wood and stone.

  J. K. Rowling

  Coffee, Home, Dust

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• They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Understanding, Prejudice, Firsts

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• I love pizza so much, I would marry pizza, but it would just be an elaborate ploy to eat her whole family at the reception.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Whole Family, Ploy, Pizza

  Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Country, Years, Television

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• I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Husband, Lunch, People

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• ... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Organization, Succeed

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• Our thinking is a pious reception.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Pious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Good Man, Society

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1227, Delphi Classics

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• Adoration outside Holy Mass prolongs and intensifies what has taken place in the liturgical celebration and makes a true and profound reception of Christ possible. I . . . warmly recommend, to Pastors and to all the faithful, the practice of Eucharistic adoration

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Taken, Practice, Profound

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• I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night.

  Howard Dean

  Night, Tuesday, Would Be

  Former Governor Howard Dean's Remarks, www.washingtonpost.com. July 28, 2004.

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• Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping stones between heaven and earth.

  Anodea Judith

  Heaven, Energy, Earth

  Anodea Judith, Lion Goodman (2012). “Creating on Purpose: The Spiritual Technology of Manifesting Through the Chakras”, p.11, Sounds True

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• Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Editors, Saws, Looks

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• There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating as a revolt against silence, creating when both the creation and the reception, the writing and the reading, are dangerous undertakings, disobedience to a directive.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  Edwidge Danticat (2011). “Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work”, p.11, Vintage

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• The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Law, Doors

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

  Vernon Howard

  Block, Acceptance, Simple

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• there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.

  Margaret Wise Brown

  Creativity, Two, Creation

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• A spa hotel? It's like a normal hotel, only in reception there's a picture of a pebble.

  Rhod Gilbert

  Pebbles, Normal, Spas

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• The bathrooms - that usually would be a porta-potty - were wrapped in a fabric that was neutral to match the fort ... the same materials that were used to cover the bathroom, we said, 'Let's just use that [to cover a bar at the reception], because this is all we have to make the bar look better.' Which it did, in the end.

  Kanye West

  Crazy, Would Be, Bars

  "Kanye West: A Brand-New Ye". Interview with Zach Baron, www.gq.com. July 20, 2014.

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