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«I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.»
Author: Martin Van Buren
(President)
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«Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.»
Author: Peace Pilgrim
(Spiritual leader, Teacher)
| About:
Love
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«The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.»
«Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.»
Author: Joseph Heller
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«Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury ? sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal ? drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. Out of furia comes creation, inspiration, originality, passion, but also violence, pain, pure unafraid destruction, the giving and receiving of blows from which we never recover. The Furies pursue us; Shiva dances his furious dance to create and also to destroy. But never mind about gods! Sara ranting at him represented the human spirit in its purest, least socialized form. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise ? the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untramelled lord of creation.»
«Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.»
«Naturally, man has to seek all means of discovering the meaning of Life, for without knowing it, he is lost; he wanders from birth to birth, receiving knock after knock and is seldom the better for all the experience.»
«Receiving the summons from the Lord of the Universe, O my merchant friend, you must arise and depart with the actions you have committed.»
«No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.»
«Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.»
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