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• Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers.

  Kato

  Song, Math, Land

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• What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity.

  Richard Carlson

  Expectations, Peaceful, Feelings

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Reciprocity is not mandatory.

  David Lubar

  David Lubar (2015). “Sophomores and Other Oxymorons”, p.283, Penguin

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• Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation - but most of all, of reciprocity - of teamwork. There is no way to free-lance in volleyball.

  Marv Dunphy

  Inspirational, Funny, Teamwork

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• Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

  Martin Buber

  Ethics, Moral, Currents

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.89, eBookIt.com

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• Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.

  Jean Edward Smith

  Doe, Logic, Knows

  Jean Edward Smith (2012). “Eisenhower in War and Peace”, p.136, Random House

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• To stand emotionally open before the world & give of our hearts without fear of hurt or demand of reciprocity - this is the ultimate act of human courage.

  Brendon Burchard

  Hurt, Heart, Giving

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• a lot of brothers don't understand. When it comes to making love, reciprocity is everything.

  Pearl Cleage

  Brother, Sex, Making Love

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• In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening. There is what we call dead loss. And this is not the case in any act of sexual intercourse between two people. Two people may destroy one another in sex. But they cannot just produce the null effect of masturbation.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Loss, Self

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.177, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• Confirming an intuitive sense I've always felt for the interconnectedness of all things, this doctrine has provided me ways to understand the intricate web of co-arising that links one being with all other beings, and to apprehend the reciprocities between thought and action, self and universe.

  Joanna Macy

  Self, Doctrine, Links

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• We should expect hope's reciprocity as a natural flowering of the life of hope. Helping others and nurturing hope is expressive of hopefulness itself. It is an extension of the hopeful self to reach out to others, promoting the connection of agency and the enrichment of horizons of meaning. Hope's reciprocity grows out of the very social nature of hope; we thus frequently see it live in family relations, in intimacy, in love. And so hope spreads. This spreading should not surprise us; like love, it is freely given, fostered, and nurtured.

  Patrick Shade

  Helping Others, Self, Like Love

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• One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that if we act correctly, if we are of good heart and good intentions, things will work out. We assume a reciprocity with the universe. If we do our part, the universe will comply. Many ancient stories, including the Book of Job, painfully reveal the fact that there is no such contract, and everyone who goes through the Middle Passage is made aware of it.

  James Hollis

  Jobs, Powerful, Book

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.41, Inner City Books

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• One thing I've always struggled with in life is loving people too much. It's painful when that love is not reciprocated. But one thing I always comfort myself with is the fact that Allah will always show greater love to those who love Him. Allah doesn't disappoint you so keep your heart attached to Him.

  Omar Suleiman

  Heart, Love Is, People

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from May 30, 2014

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• The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.

  Norman Thomas

  Law, Personality, Groups

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• It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And yet, the average American can name over a hundred corporate logos and ten plants. Is it a surprise that we have accepted a political system that grants personhood to corporations, and no status at all for wild rice and redwoods? Learning the names of plants and animals is a powerful act of support for them. When we learn their names and their gifts, it opens the door to reciprocity.

  Robin Wall Kimmerer

  Powerful, Animal, Names

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• I have believed for a long time that human nature is a reciprocity of what is inside the skin and what is outside: that it is definitely not "rolled up inside us" but our way of being one with our fellows and our world. I call this field theory.

  Gardner Murphy

  Our World, Long, Skins

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• A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Civilization, Luxury, Selfishness

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.227

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• Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept. We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.

  Alan Lightman

  Beautiful, Strong, Wall

  "Our Lonely Home in Nature". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.nytimes.com. May 2, 2014.

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• It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, lovin you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars, tell me who i have to be, to get some reciprocity.

  Michael Baisden

  Simple, Battle, Scar

  Michael Baisden (2000). “The Maintenance Man: A Novel”, Touchstone

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• (Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Emotional, Culture, Males

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• Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few who have stayed, have stayed for a reason. A reciprocity of need and desire inspires the musicians to dig as deeply into their talent and souls as they are able. This mysterious and transformative confluence of events rarely happens in concert. It is the province of the nightclub.

  Patricia Barber

  Night, Inspire, Soul

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• The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity with a "right" that prisoners have; namely the freedom to bypass the public system when it fails to provide reasonable access?

  Brian Day

  Citizens, Canada, Bypass

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• My relationships are based on personal reciprocity. Being a Dodger was a matter of heart, but in the end I felt they didn't want me.

  Steve Garvey

  Heart, Want, Matter

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• Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio ­stations, U.S. artists aren't ­compensated when their records are played on U.K. stations based on the fact that there's no reciprocity. If that income came in, our ­artists would be paying income taxes on it. So if we can get a lot of policy on the radar, that may have some positive influence.

  Neil Portnow

  Artist, Would Be, Income

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I take "We, the People" seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.

  Bill Moyers

  Civilization, People, Know How

  Source: progressive.org

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