Received Quotes
1105 quotes by 915 authors
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As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is…
— Philip K. Dick
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For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from…
— George McGovern
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I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in…
— Alan Shepard
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You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words…
— Jonathan Lethem
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I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing…
— John Cage
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Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from…
— David M. Brown
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There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have…
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky,…
— Christopher Columbus
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No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
— Samuel Johnson
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My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon…
— Lucy Hale
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Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and…
— Sarah Polley
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The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became…
— Whitley Strieber
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Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even…
— John R. Rice
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He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Good ideas, as we have seen, are not always well received, especially if there are too many of them.
— Meredith Belbin
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It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the Church of Rome;…
— Pope Adrian IV
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Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency…
— John of Damascus
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
— Gautama Buddha
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I know what I gave them; I don't know what they received.
— Gautama Buddha
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