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«It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!»
«I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received»
«Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however worthy, to make judgments.»
Author: Richard Mitchell
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at once, considered, emotional, inclination, judgments, literacy, portion, pursue, received, responses, schools, values, value judgment, worthy
«I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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Prayer
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legs, prayed, received
«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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About us, complained, entertaining, heroism, killing, lots, ours, received, receiving, The War
«I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice, and have received a great deal of kindness not quite free from ridicule.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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a great deal, endured, great deal, malice, received, ridicule, ridiculed, ridicules
«In a sense, it (Christianity) creates rather than solves the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is ri»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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Christianity
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assurance, assurances, creates, in a sense, No problem, painful, received, sense experience, side by side, solves, ultimate
«I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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lettered, letters, more than, no more, postage, received, to the letter, worth
«Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
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according, accords, ashamed, Do or Die, dying, get in touch, humble, humbler, humbles, humbling, in accord, loneliest, lonely, poor, received, slow, slowed, slowing, slows, the Graces, The Lonely, the poor, touch, touch on, touch up, unwanted
«Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that hath received it disclose it»
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