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Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error. -- David Brin
Love is a reciprocal torture. -- Marcel Proust
Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability. -- Claude Shannon
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. -- Samuel Johnson
Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities. -- Inga Muscio
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members. -- Georg Simmel
I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one. -- Sean Penn
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing. -- Alva Myrdal
Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it. -- Martin Van Buren
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion. -- Friedrich List
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. -- Ruth Ozeki
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. -- Ernst Haeckel
Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship. -- Georg Simmel
Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share. -- Francois Lelord
Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations. -- J. William Fulbright
Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other. -- Friedrich List
All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another. -- Nicolas Malebranche
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. -- Lord Chesterfield
A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it! -- Danica McKellar
He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted. -- Nicolas Malebranche
There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance. -- Steven Pinker
The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other. -- Talcott Parsons
Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits begin and end. And unlike an electrical circuit, brain connections are heavily reciprocal and recursive, so that a direction of information flow can be inferred but sometimes not proven. -- Thomas R. Insel
To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The four of us enjoyed a most wonderful family atmosphere filled with love and reciprocal devotion. Both parents were highly cultured and instilled in us their high appreciation of intellectual pursuit. It was, however, a typical Victorian style of life, all decisions being taken by the head of the family, the husband and father. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. -- John C. Calhoun
Hate and love are reciprocal passions. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Hate and love are reciprocal passions. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Longing is not always a reciprocal thing. -- Kate DiCamillo
Freemasonry, Judaism, and Occultism, whose alliance and reciprocal interpretation no longer require demonstration. -- Leon V. DePoncins
Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals. -- Herman Melville
The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give. -- John Dewey
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. -- Beth Moore
The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations. -- Jean Rousset
The one and only Gospel waits to be proclaimed by everyone together, in love and reciprocal esteem. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life. -- Samuel Johnson
Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
A stable movement requries a healthy, reciprocal I.O.U. flow among its participants. Don't keep a careful tally. -- Morton Blackwell
Talent emerges over the course of a lifetime of reciprocal interactions between the developing brain and a stimulating environment. -- Scott Barry Kaufman
Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal. -- James A. Baldwin
Respect is the art of reciprocal. You can never earn respect by belittling and stepping over the people around you. -- Edmond Mbiaka
I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other. -- Chelsea Manning
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. -- Louis K Anspacher
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal. -- Lucretia Mott
Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live. -- Marc Bekoff
Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand. -- Allan Bloom
True friendship is an unconditional, unselfish, reciprocal service not by lips, but heart to never let its in-built trust to ever fall apart. -- Anuj
I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed. -- Samuel Johnson
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. -- Elizabeth Bowen
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry. -- J. D. Salinger
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. -- Jonathan Haidt
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. -- Ulrich Beck
The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers. -- Angela Carter
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. -- Albert Einstein
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. -- Ellen Glasgow
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. -- Adrienne Rich
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe. -- Edmund Burke
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. -- Eckhart Tolle
Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it. -- Adora Svitak
Love enters only one gates - the spiritual heart opened towards! And then the reciprocal wave of love arises in it, streaming outside. In that way love lives and grows. -- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation? -- Victor Hugo
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. -- Bryan Stevenson
Education is the preparation of the individual for reciprocal union with society; the preparation of the individual so that he can help his fellow-men and in return receive and appreciate their help. -- William Torrey Harris
Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other. -- Friedrich List
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. -- Barry Williams
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. -- Lord Chesterfield
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. -- Simone de Beauvoir

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