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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.

Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

I love to both give and receive very old books.

My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.

I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.

You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties.

You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.

Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.