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Letter "R" » reception
«To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham
| Keywords:
accompany, Black woman, Elevators, floor show, forty-ninth, guards, in a moment, ninth, off guard, pregnant, reception, receptions, reception room, Third World, uniformed
«There is no evidence that at any time during its history the cat's way of life and its reception into human homesteads were purposely planned and directed by humans, as was the case with all other domestic animals, at least from a very early stage of»
Author: Paul Leyhausen
| Keywords:
directed, Directed By, domestic, domestic animal, domestic animals, domestic cat, humans, planned, purposely, reception, receptions, way of life
«There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence»
Author: Philip James Bailey
(Poet)
| Keywords:
high quality, moral excellence, reception, receptions, surer
«And we certainly don't have full conversations on cellphones. You know? Usually the reception is so bad, but it's only bad on your side. The person talking to you has no clue...They're just rambling on and on. You've got your finger jammed in your ear, you're shushing people on the streets. You're ducked behind a dumpster so you can hear about your friend's new hair cut. 'What about the bangs are they shorter?!?...Are the bangs shorter?!?...THE BAAANGS!!!»
Author: Ellen DeGeneres
(Actress, Comedian)
| Keywords:
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«If the divorced are remarried civilly, they find themselves in a situation that objectively contravenes God's law. Consequently, they cannot receive Holy Communion as long as this situation persists. This norm is not at all a punishment or a discrimination against the divorced and remarried, but rather expresses an objective situation that of itself renders impossible the reception of Holy Communion: '. . . If these people were admitted to the Eucharist, the faithful would be led into error and confusion regarding the Church's teaching about the indissolubility of marriage'.»
Author: Pope Benedict XVI
(Pope)
| Keywords:
admitted, civilly, Communion, consequently, discrimination, divorced, Eucharist, expresses, Holy Communion, norm, norms, objective, objectively, reception, receptions, regarding, renders
«When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us through the Revolution, in preparing us for the reception of a general government, and in conciliating the good will of the People of America towards one»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Providence
| Keywords:
conciliate, conciliating, General Government, interposition, manifested, reception, receptions, visibly
«I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Compliments
| Keywords:
complaint, compliment, courteous, insured, insures, insuring, precede, reception, receptions, resentment, softens
«We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.»
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