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“The reciprocity of respect accrues to us not only from those we respect but also from others who perceive that we respect ourselves.”

Respect Reciprocal

Author:Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.”

Love Giving Friendship Family Marriage Relationship Sacrifice Return Bigger Give Partner Road Reciprocity Reciprocal Street Receive Sacrificing Come Back Larger

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”

Source: The Secret of Staying in Love

“Like wind and fire, water and soil, we used one another, to grow and blossom. Love was a dream, elusive as were we.”

Love Life Dream Poetry Illusion Being In Love Elusive Reciprocity Reciprocal Used One Another

Book:Life is a Remembrance

Source: Life is a Remembrance

“The elderly were formerly young before being utterly overtaken by years. It is only orderly that they arrive first at our common destination of ageing. Tenderly treating the elderly is therefore entirely reciprocal.”

Young Destination Elderly Ageing Reciprocal Years Of Life Entirely Tenderly Overtaken

Author:Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each moderating what is too excessive and therefore unlikely to live in the other, creating a being apart who easily arrives at domination, for nothing can stop such a man...It is the eternal opposition of Shylock and Jessica. It is the illogical and monstrous mixture of the rarest qualities with the most abject defects, mixture of irresistible force and of irremediable weakness.”

“I hold, as an article of faith, that the worth of an organisation can be accurately measured as the reciprocal of how many Hollywood beautiful people it attracts. It has never failed me yet.”

People Beautiful Hollywood Articles Organisation Beautiful People Reciprocal

Author:Barry Williams

“The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.”

Scene Civility Reciprocal Farce

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets, concluded. Miscellaneous lives

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets, concluded. Miscellaneous lives

“But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.”

Humanity Broken Walking Sight Hiding Wholeness Walking Away Reciprocal

Author:Bryan Stevenson

“Any time you know you're within the law, within your legal rights, within your moral rights, in accord with justice, then die for what you believe in. But don't die alone. Let your dying be reciprocal. This is what is meant by equality. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.”

Knows Believe Law Dies Justice Moral Rights Dying Accord Geese Reciprocal Legal Rights Gander

Author:Malcolm X

“Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles of society and the natural constitution of man. It existed prior to government, and would exist if the formality of government was abolished. The mutual dependence and reciprocal interest which man has upon man, and all the parts of civilised community upon each other, create that great chain of connection which holds it together.”

Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

“As the dolphin becomes just another victim of humanity's utilitarian attitudes towards the earth, it seems as though the ancient friendship between our respective species is no longer entirely reciprocal. Such exploitation is nowhere more evident than in the capture and display of cetaceans for profit. Stripped of their natural identity, deprived of their own culture and environment, the dolphin and whale incarcerated within the oceanarium not only symbolizes an abuse of that ancient relationship, but above all our estrangement from nature as a whole.”

“No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and the respective refinement of the one will always be in reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other.”

Sex Universal Mirrors Improvement Proportion Confined Polish Refinement Reciprocal

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.”

Mind Book Reading Process Reader Formulas Reciprocal Mind Reading

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.”

Children Process Identity Particular Female Motherhood Intense All Time Reciprocal

Book:Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

“It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death.”

People Important Nature Animal Decent Farms Animal Rights Our Relationship Reciprocal Afraid Of Death Painless Decent Life

Author:Temple Grandin

“Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.”

People Humans Species Partners Gossip Reciprocal Reciprocate

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.”

Men Firsts Can Do Fool Depends Friends Bears Faults Every Man Latter Sober Propose Annoyed Madmen Temperance Reciprocal Continuance Mildness

Author:Owen Feltham

“I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there for me. I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience.”

Thinking Powerful Behinds Written Reader Code Buried Layers Very Powerful Magnet Reciprocal

Author:William Gibson

“The fundamental principle [of settlement work] remains: that people shall take up their residence in industrial communities, giving what they may have of public spirit, and partaking of the life about them; preserving their identity as individuals and endeavoring to keep the settlement free from the institutional form of philanthropic work. ... the relationship is reciprocal.”

People Giving May Form Spirit Individual Community Principles Identity Dignity Fundamentals Remains Settlement Philanthropic Reciprocal Fundamental Principles Residence

Author:Lillian Wald

“I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.”

Pleasure Governing Reciprocal Subordination

Book:Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson

Source: Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson

“The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.”

Way Reader Emerging Reciprocal

Author:Ruth Ozeki

“Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and cheaper transportation; for low interest rates; for sounder home financing; for better banking; for the regulation of security issues; for reciprocal trade among nations and for the wiping out of slums. And my friends, for all of these we have only begun to fight.”

“When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.”

Way Needs Mean Moments Character Individual Social Quality Relation Satisfaction Recognition Abstract Isolated Concrete Commerce Abstraction Reciprocal Universality

Book:Hegel's Philosophy of right

Source: Hegel's Philosophy of right

“I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.”

Writing Self Wanted Independence Advertising Reciprocal

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.”

“Given Freudian assumptions about the nature of children and the biological predestination of mothers, it is unthinkable for mothers voluntarily to leave their babies in others' care, without guilt about the baby's well-being and a sense of self-deprivation. Mothers need their babies for their own mental health, and babies need their mothers for their mental health--a reciprocal and symbiotic relationship.”

Needs Wells Children Self Care Mother Given Baby Guilt Mental Health Well Being Assumption Sense Of Self Unthinkable Deprivation Reciprocal Predestination

Author:Sandra Scarr

“Society and personality live in a continuing reciprocal relation with each other. The search for personal change without efforts to change the institutions within which we live and grow will, therefore, be met with only limited reward.”

Grows Change Effort Personality Mets Relation Institutions Rewards Continuing Social Change Reciprocal Personal Change

Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“There is, between the sexes, a law of incessant reciprocal action, of which God avails himself in the constitution of the family, when He permits brothers and sisters to nestle about the same hearthstone. Its ministration is essential to the best educational results. Our own educational institutions should rest upon this divine basis.”

“Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings.”

Men Humans Human Beings Men And Women Relation Equality Womens Rights Reciprocal Being Equal

Author:Laura Riding

“Instead of being a static one-time event, bonding is a process, a dynamic and continuous one. Thus, a reciprocal, loving attachment is still realizable even when early contact is delayed--as it is for many mothers and their prematurely born infants, or when illness of either the newborn or the mother intervenes.”

Stills Mother Process Born Events Illness Contact Attachment One Time Infant Static Bonding Newborn Delayed Reciprocal

Author:Julius Segal

“Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are forced to encounter ourselves; and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are.”

Ifs Looks May Children Process Struggle Identity Willing Happenings Our Children Encounters Who We Are Reciprocal

Author:Augustus Napier

“When there's somebody there who is transparent enough so that the stillness comes through unhindered, there's a reciprocal movement in you because the presence of stillness suddenly recognizes itself.”

Enough Movement Stillness Transparent Reciprocal

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die.”

“When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other, and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. But the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.”

Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis

“Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by countries, religions and continents.”

Country Individual Communication Active Contact Continents Frontiers Excluded Reciprocal Simultaneous Electronic Communication

Book:What Is Globalization?

Source: What Is Globalization?

“Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.”

Heart Mean Purpose Culture Technology Influence Evolution Shapes Myth Narrative Circuits Reciprocal

Book:Utopian Entrepreneur

Source: Utopian Entrepreneur

“I truly believe that we each have a House of Belonging waiting for us. Waiting to be found, waiting to be built, waiting to be renovated, waiting to be cleaned up. Waiting to rescue us. Waiting for the real thing: a grown-up, romantic, reciprocal relationship.”

Believe Real Found House Waiting Built Belonging Rescue Real Things Reciprocal

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.”

Persons Social Enjoy Company Situation Audience Please Praise Favors Admire Welcome Excellent Flattery Promotion Rivals Applause Banquets Reciprocal Flatterer

Book:In Praise of Flattery

Source: In Praise of Flattery

“I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch of thought - the history of race (phylogeny). Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation... 'ontogenesis is a brief and rapid recapitulation of phylogenesis, determined by the physiological functions of heredity (generation) and adaptation (maintenance).”

“Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.”

Two Strong Realms Nevertheless Science And Religion Dependency Reciprocal

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“I think it's satisfying for people to feel that that relationship is reciprocal in some way. The truth is, you do have a relationship with your fans, and there is a feedback loop there. And while you have to be careful not to write a show just for the superfans, that kind of feedback is really valuable.”

People Thinking Way Feels Writing Kind Shows Fans Truth Is Careful Valuable Satisfying Be Careful Feedback Loops Reciprocal

Author:Matt Nix

“Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.”

Wells Has Beens Stills Two Done Jobs Difficult Needed Members Profession Tendencies Murphy Reciprocal

Author:Peter Ustinov

“What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices; in it is nothing but a system of traffic, in which self-love always proposes to itself some advantage.”

Men Self Names Given Interest Self Love Office Advantage Traffic Propose Alliances Reciprocal Accommodations Love Always Good Office

Author:Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

“The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations.”

Book Reading Relation Reciprocal Simultaneous

Author:Jean Rousset

“War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.”

War Hands Action Force Results Theory Limits Application Adversaries Reciprocal

Book:On war: Translated from the German by O.J. Matthijs Jolles

Source: On war: Translated from the German by O.J. Matthijs Jolles

“Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.”

Two Self Would Be Universe Recognition Revelations Reciprocal Enrichment

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“I can write a song in the back of the bus, where I am right now, or in my living room, and I can perform it that night and have an instant reciprocal exchange - an emotional, impactful exchange - and it's a less technical medium. It's a pure expression from my soul to other souls.”

Writing I Can Soul Night Song Rooms Emotional Expression Right Now Pure Mediums My Soul Instant Bus Living Room Reciprocal

Author:Juliette Lewis

“Freemasonry, Judaism, and Occultism, whose alliance and reciprocal interpretation no longer require demonstration.”

Jew Interpretation Judaism Demonstration Alliances Reciprocal Freemasonry

Author:Leon V. DePoncins

“There is a strong reciprocal relationship whereby our more ambitious design visions encourage the continuing development of the new digital technologies and fabrication techniques, and those new developments in turn inspire us to push the design envelope ever further.”

Turns Strong Vision Technology Design Inspire Development Technique Digital Ambitious Continuing Envelopes Reciprocal Fabrication Digital Technology

Author:Zaha Hadid