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«Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: be given, dealt, deal out, in return
«And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.»
Author: Gloria Vanderbilt (Designer, Poet) | About: Mothers | Keywords: in return
«Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.»
«A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.»
«A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return»
«From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.»
«Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.»
«Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.»
«A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.»
«How various his employments, whom the world / Calls idle; and who justly, in return, / Esteems that busy world an idler too!»

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