It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

quote by John C. Calhoun
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He that courts injury will obtain it.

Danish proverbs
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We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

quote by Albert Camus
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A Puppy Kind of Hopeless

When she hung up the receiver...
I heated to a temperature fever.
My friends all told me I should leave her.
But I believed,
Come what may on that day...
She and I stayed in love.
A puppy kind..
Of hopeless love.

But all I got to receive was deceit.
And she could rattle a fanatical in me.
If she wanted to flaunt it!
Knowing she had my nose open.
Still I kept all possibilities high.
Hoping.
I had a need to be that type of guy!
So hard I tried.

When she hung up the receiver...
I heated to a temperature fever.

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Kisses that are easily obtained are easily forgotten.

English proverbs
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A girl receives, a widow takes her husband.

Chinese proverbs
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What is worth receiving is worth returning.

French proverbs
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Day Of The Lords

(joy division)
This is the room, the start of it all
No portrait so fine, only sheets on the wall
Ive seen the nights, filled with bloodsport and pain
And the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained
Where will it end?
These are your friends,
From childhood through youth
Who goaded you on, demanded full proof
Withdrawal pains hard, it can do you right in
So distorted and thin, distorted and thin
Where will it end?
This is the car at the edge of the road
Theres nothing disturbed,
All the windows are closed
I guess you were right, when we talked in the heat
Theres no room for the weak,
No room for the weak
Where will it end?
This is the room, the start of it all

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song performed by 16 Horsepower
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For what I have received, my the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

quote by Storm Jameson
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For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

quote by Storm Jameson
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The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

quote by Ken Calvert
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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

quote by George MacDonald
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My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

quote by George Stigler
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The dust receives insult and in return offers her flowers.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

quote by Sherrod Brown
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The Good, Great Man

'How seldom, friend! a good great man inherits
Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains!
It sounds like stories from the land of spirits
If any man obtain that which he merits
Or any merit that which he obtains.'

Reply to the Above

For shame, dear friend, renounce this canting strain!
What would'st thou have a good great man obtain?
Place? titles? salary? a gilded chain?
Or throne of corses which his sword had slain?
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends!
Hath he not always treasures, always friends,
The good great man? three treasures, LOVE, and LIGHT,
And CALM THOUGHTS, regular as infant's breath:
And three firm friends, more sure than day and night,
HIMSELF, his MAKER, and the ANGEL DEATH!

poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

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A Lyke-Wake Dirge

THIS ae nighte, this ae nighte,
   --Every nighte and alle,
Fire and fleet and candle-lighte,
   And Christe receive thy saule.

When thou from hence away art past,
   --Every nighte and alle,
To Whinny-muir thou com'st at last;
   And Christe receive thy saule.

If ever thou gavest hosen and shoon,
   --Every nighte and alle,
Sit thee down and put them on;
   And Christe receive thy saule.

If hosen and shoon thou ne'er gav'st nane
   --Every nighte and alle,
The whinnes sall prick thee to the bare bane;
   And Christe receive thy saule.

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poem by Anonymous
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Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.

quote by William Ames
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the bliss of life
is in giving
not receiving or expecting

senryu by John Celes
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