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There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking… — Paulo Coelho
Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom. — Tom Bissell
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at… — Charles Dickens
The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldnâ€™t have it. And anybody who does… — Orson Scott Card
The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to… — Henri Nouwen
I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received. — Antonio Porchia
I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his… — Jim Cymbala
It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of… — Richard Wurmbrand
I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if… — Bernhard Schlink
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against… — Samuel Adams
The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away... — Miguel de Cervantes
The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life… — Douglas Adams
That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy… — Barack Obama
How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his… — Jack London
A lang, lang time agoâ€¦â€ MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincentâ€™s low groan, â€œthere was a bonnie maid called Malvina. She was the betrothed of Oscar, the… — Lisa Kleypas
Ask once, believe you have received, and all you have to do to receive is feel good. — Rhonda Byrne
Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and… — Rene Descartes
Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But… — Leo Tolstoy

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