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• [Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.

  Edward Forbes

  Character, Science, Epic

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• ...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination, but also to counteract discrimination's lingering effects. Those effects, reflective of a system of racial caste [legal segregation and discrimination] only recently ended, are evident in our work places, markets, and neighborhoods. Job applicants with identical resumes, qualifications, and interview styles still experience different receptions, depending on their race.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Jobs, Persistence, Race

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• The job has left me with a healthy disregard for what you might call Public Life. I have no desire now to go to receptions, to be seen at gatherings of the great and the good, to stand and be bored to death by men in grey suits.

  Michael Longley

  Jobs, Men, Bored

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• To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Passion, Black, One Day

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• I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Complaining, Resentment

  Mark Twain (1917). “Mark Twain's Letters”

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• I scored a touchdown on the first reception I made in the NFL and spiked the ball. The instant I did, I felt horrible and couldn't wait for the game to end so I could call Coach Bryant and apologize. He said he didn't even notice, but I never spiked the ball again.

  Ozzie Newsome

  Games, Nfl, Waiting

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• I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn't been the manifested reception of it so far.

  Ron Glass

  Doe, Surprise, Term

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• I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy.

  Kurt Masur

  People, Shy, Orchestra

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• ('Mad Men') was my final audition of the pilot season. It had been three miserable, horrible months where I had zero callbacks, zero positive reception, one of those pilot seasons that makes you pretty sure you are never going to be an actor and never want to be an actor. And then that happened.

  Rich Sommer

  Zero, Men, Mad

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• In my lifetime I have seen democracy begin to expand, not only to include those who have been excluded, but to provide a listening arena, a vocabulary, an intelligent reception for stories that have been buried. Not just stories of the disenfranchised and the marginalized, but marginalized and disenfranchised histories even in the lives of the accepted and the privileged.

  Susan Griffin

  Intelligent, Vocabulary, Listening

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• I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

  Henry Rollins

  Past, Long, Directors

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• I think there [on Cuba] is going to be an extraordinary reception.Cubans are - they want to hold onto their culture, their heritage, but they also want to embrace this opportunity, perhaps, for new economic freedoms.

  David Muir

  Opportunity, Thinking, Want

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We are pleased with the very positive reception our offer has received, and are confident that progress is being made towards establishing the regulatory framework for the offer.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Progress, Made

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• All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Found, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.491, Library of America

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• It was reported in the paper that President Bush received a 'warm reception' from the Daytona 500 drivers. Well sure, the drivers had never met anyone who was sponsored by more oil companies than they were.

  Jay Leno

  Oil, President, Paper

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• Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when invited to a White House reception hosted by then President and First Lady Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Jackson had been assured that the only people there, besides the presidential couple, would be a few staff members' children. Aghast to find around 75 adults and no children, Jackson locked himself in an upstairs bathroom, refusing to emerge until assured that all non-essential adults had been replaced by a number of children.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Couple, White

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• If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Passion, Glasses, Mirrors

  Ralph Cudworth (1845). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated : with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality”, p.579

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• Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.

  Gagan Narang

  Commonwealth Games, Differences, Gold

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• I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of reception. And this right hemispheric denigration would manifest in two principal ways: Women's rights would be taken away, and images would be declared abominations.

  Leonard Shlain

  Taken, Two, Rights

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• The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.

  Giordano Bruno

  Space, Matter, Infinity

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.

  Martin Heidegger

  Art, Feelings, Relation

  Martin Heidegger (1979). “Nietzsche: The will to power as art”

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• Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because "many hands make light work." The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China.

  David Lange

  Light, Hands, House

  "Dominion", (p. 6), March 23, 1992.

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• People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make up their minds to believe it. The division of American had become an idea so fixed that they had about shut out all the avenues to the reception of any other.

  Henry Adams

  War, Believe, Sunday

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• God has spoken to me differently through my life, and it has gotten better as I've gotten older. I don't know if that's my reception or his maturing.

  Rick Springfield

  Mature, Knows, Ifs

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

  Kim Edwards

  Writing, Impossible, Things You Can Control

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