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recipient
«Psychoanalysis shows the human infant as the passive recipient of love, unable to bear hostility. Development is the learning to love actively and to bear rejection.»
Author: Karl Stern
| Keywords:
actively, hostilities, hostility, infant, Learning to, passive, psychoanalysis, recipient, recipients, rejection, rejections, unable
«Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.»
Author: S. H. Simmons
| About:
Kindness
| Keywords:
at least, benefits, effect, effected, effecting, recipient, recipients, to that effect, wasted
«Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.»
Author: John D. Rockefeller
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| About:
Charity
| Keywords:
charity, independent, injurious, recipient, recipients
«The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here»
«True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
come to the fore, fore, purity, recipient, recipients
«I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
discourse, discourses, discoursing, engender, Engendered, engendering, engenders, guilt, hence, recipient, recipients, The Discourses
«LL.D. Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption. Some suspicion is cast upon this derivation by the fact that the title was formerly _LL.d._, and conferred only upon gentlemen distinguished for their wealth. At the date of this writing Columbia University is considering the expediency of making another degree for clergymen, in place of the old D.D. --_Damnator Diaboli_. The new honor will be known as _Sanctorum Custus_, and written _$$c_. The name of the Rev. John Satan has been suggested as a suitable recipient by a lover of consistency, who points out that Professor Harry Thurston Peck has long enjoyed the advantage of a degree.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
clergymen, Columbia, Columbia University, conferred, Considering, consistency, derivation, derivations, distinguished, expediency, formerly, gifted, gumption, indicating, in place, known as, peck, pecking, peck at, point of honor, professor, recipient, recipients, rev, revving, suggested, suitable, suspicion, The title, title
«You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.»
Author: Dale Carnegie
| Keywords:
appreciation, a few, cherish, discouraged, discourages, discouraging, easily, giving, increase, lifetime, lonely, recipient, recipients, sincere, sum, sum total, sum up, total, world power
