Receives Quotes
274 quotes by 233 authors
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So you can see that if you direct that force at several objectives, it becomes divided, and each objective receives a fairly weak stimulus, which…
— Roger McDonald
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There is no force inherent in living matter, no vital force independent of and differing from the cosmic forces; the energy which living matter gives…
— William Thomas Councilman
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Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bonafide spiritual master by the…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the most holy Body…
— Francis of Assisi
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No one can be transferred from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God without a great battle and by the good…
— Johan Oscar Smith
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...99% of the casualties linked to climate change occur in developing countries. Worst hit are the world's poorest groups. While climate change will increasingly affect…
— Rajendra K. Pachauri
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Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.
— Henry Adams
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For he who touches the Body of Christ unworthily receives his damnation.
— Peter Chrysologus
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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
— Zhuangzi
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Everybody is afraid of death for the simple reason that we have not tasted of life yet. The man who knows what life is, is…
— Rajneesh
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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their…
— Benjamin Franklin
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If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful,…
— John C. Maxwell
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Professional marriage counselors agree that the most productive and mature way to deal with marital anger is to stomp dramatically from the room. You want…
— Dave Barry
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A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just…
— Marlon Brando
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Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you…
— David Foster
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The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises . .…
— Buster Keaton
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