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India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid. -- Bill Gates
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. -- Thomas Aquinas
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. -- John D. Rockefeller
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. -- Roland Barthes
Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first. -- Noam Chomsky
I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient. -- Dave deBronkart
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. -- Milan Kundera
Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from the recipient's point of view, that's zero. -- Nicholas Negroponte
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient. -- E. M. Forster
Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move. -- Samuel P. Huntington
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries. -- Margaret Chan
We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing. -- Asa Hutchinson
Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?' -- Mo Ibrahim
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it. -- Susie Orbach
Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral. -- Bill Gates
Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop. -- Dorothy Height
People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that there are a lot of organizations that have been the recipient of largess from the same Wall Street. -- Geoffrey Canada
In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend. -- Pauline Hanson
You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it. -- Omari Hardwick
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past. -- Edward Mills Purcell
My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad. -- Ashton Kutcher
It's easier to get rid of things when you're giving them to someone who can use them, but don't let this kind intention become a source of clutter itself. I have a friend who has multiple piles all over her house, each lovingly destined for a particular recipient. -- Gretchen Rubin
I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat. -- Gwen Moore
Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition. -- Ban Ki-moon
And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year! -- Jim Valvano
Service heals the recipient and the giver. -- Bryant H. McGill
All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient. -- Ludwig von Mises
My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient. -- Mason Cooley
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient. -- Barbara Mertz
Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient. -- Joy Browne
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient. -- Henry Ward Beecher
To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient. -- Peter Drucker
Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient. -- BolesÅ?aw Prus
I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees. -- Jessye Norman
Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically. -- Junot Diaz
A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient. -- Myrtle Reed
God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.. -- Timothy Keller
To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. -- John Dewey
Every act of kindness is potent and lingers long in the heart of the recipient. -- Gary Lineker
You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life. -- Rob Bell
The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise. -- Barbara W. Tuchman
Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. -- Seth Godin
Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before. -- Stan Lee
You can't just be a recipient of a blessing, you have to do something to make it happen. -- T. D. Jakes
The Gospel must be repeatedly forwarded to a new address because the recipient is repeatedly changing places of residence. -- Helmut Thielicke
When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. -- Dale Carnegie
The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life. -- Timothy Keller
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift. -- C. S. Lewis
He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s. -- Noam Chomsky
Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation. -- Peter Drucker
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. -- Robert Graves
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life. -- George D. Prentice
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. -- Sigmund Freud
The cost for the recipient of Godâ??s grace is nothing, and no price could be higher for arrogant people to pay. -- Dan B. Allender
Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing. -- Robin Williams
Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations. -- William George Jordan
There are respectful, considerate things that can be done in life that will be appreciated by the recipient, and only good things can result. -- Randy Pausch
Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences. -- Daniel J. Siegel
He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step. -- Chanakya
Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs? -- Mabel Osgood Wright
A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs. -- David Levithan
I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure. -- Jean Kerr
As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, 'Hello, lovely day,' and so on. -- Lynne Truss
To manifest prosperity, you have to redefine yourself from a recipient to a co-creator. You have to stop looking for opportunities to present themselves and start creating them. -- Randy Gage
Svante Arrhenius, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (1903), was a declared atheist and the author of The Evolution of the Worlds and other works on cosmic physics. -- Gordon Stein
Though your acts of love and compassion cannot penetrate bandages or armour, they are never wasted and never lost. They sit within the recipient's mind, awaiting his awakening. -- Vironika Tugaleva
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain. -- Paul Gauguin
Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen. -- Seth Godin
When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to! -- Eric S. Raymond
Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we call that a job, not volunteerism. -- LZ Granderson
The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit. -- Seth Godin
God did not force Salvation on humanity; He made it a gift dependent on the free will of the recipient because He is not interested in numbers. Mega Churches are numbers. Matthew 7:13-14. -- Felix Wantang
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians. -- Daniel Dennett
When delivering something like an important letter or other written materials, grasp it firmly in your hand as you go and do not release it once, but hand it over directly to the recipient. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel. -- Emanuel Swedenborg

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