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• The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.

  Alison Moyet

  Voice, Trends, Presses

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• Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress’ negotiations often come slow or not at all.

  Cedric Richmond

  Cutting, Water, Waiting

  "Season of Calamities Necessitates Compassion Aid: Don’t Require Offsets for Emergency Disaster Relief" by Cedric Richmond, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2011.

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• Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.

  Michelle Rhee

  Leadership, Education, Money

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• Courtesy is doing that which nothing under the sun makes you do but human kindness. Courtesy springs from the heart; if the mind prompts the action, there is a reason; if there be a reason, it is not courtesy, for courtesy has no reason. Courtesy is good will, and good will is prompted by the heart full of love to be kind. Only the generous man is truly courteous. He gives freely without a thought of receiving anything in return.

  B. C. Forbes

  Kindness, Spring, Heart

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• As a believer is changed, receiving a glorified body, so similarly, the earth is changed into a new earth, unstained by sin.

  Paul P. Enns

  Body, Earth, Sin

  "Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?". Book by Paul P. Enns, 2011.

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• Hanael, the Angel of December, will help us enjoy the balance of giving and receiving in many different ways: working and relaxing, giving our support to others and allowing ourselves to receive it in our own lives, having run with friends and having a quiet time alone to replenish our energy.

  Margaret Neylon

  Running, Angel, Giving

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• We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Hands, Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.536, Library of America

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• I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

  Charles Babbage

  Venture, Importance, Discussion

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8

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• Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Writing, Heart, Reality

  Interview with Kevin Murphy, www.oregonlive.com. July 2, 2009.

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• If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review.

  Robin Hayes

  Fall, People, Judicial Review

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• If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Scary, Reason Why, Stage

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• We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.

  Joel Osteen

  Mean, People, Needs

  "Interview With Joel and Victoria Osteen". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 22, 2006.

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• The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.

  Evita Peron

  Rights, Government, Hands

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• Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints it gave of power, pride and passion. So entirely natural and unconventional was she that he soon found himself on a familiar footing, asking all manner of unusual questions, and receiving rather piquant replies.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Character, Eye, Passion

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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• He never knew what hit him, and that would have comforted me, except . . . just for one second, he would have had to know, wouldn't he? There must have been a blur, a sense of the world exploding, a flashpoint of receiving more damage than a human body could endure.

  Lisa Kleypas

  World, Body, Damage

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• The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Mirrors, Race

  Francis Bacon (2016). “New Atlantis and The Great Instauration”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

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• Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.

  Pam Houston

  Life, Giving, Needs

  Pam Houston (2011). “Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories”, p.158, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon receiving your letter. I have gone to them for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Book, Son, Finding The One

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.13, A&C Black

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• You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in the thick of this, approaching some partial vision, you will (I swear) find yourself on the receiving end of - of all things - an "idea for a story," and you will, God save you, start thinking about writing some fiction of your own. Then you will understand, in what I fancy might be a blinding flash, that all this passionate thinking is what fiction is about, that all those other fiction writers started as you did, and are laborers in the same vineyard.

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Frustration, Thinking

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• You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

  Annie Barrows

  Book, Talking, Compliment

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.7, Dial Press

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• Genet raised his hand, and I squeezed my eyes shut, sure I would be receiving the worst backhanded slap of my life. Genet froze and whimpered, but didn't back away. "Oh, ho," said a familiar voice. "That was close !" I opened my eyes as North's free hand - the one that hadn't caught Genet's wrist - gently pulled my arm free. I pushed myself away from both of them. "You interrupt my business ?" Genet sputtered. "Do you know what this wench just accused me of being ?" "A filthy pig," North said good-naturedly. "But there's only one filthy pig allowed in her life, and the position's been filled.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Eye, Pigs, Hands

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• All my life, I'd been on the receiving end of my mother's endless tenderness and vigilant care. Being allowed to care for her during her recovery was a gift – the most rewarding experience in my life.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Mother, Recovery, Care

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• Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.

  Eudora Welty

  Lonely, Art, Real

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.53, Modern Library

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• Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it as the person receiving it. Learning to forgive may be the most difficult of human acts,and the closest thing to divinity, whatever you decide that is.

  Justin Cronin

  Believe, Character, Forgiving

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• The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.

  Edward Bernays

  Real, Democracy, Doe

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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