“ The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman? ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations. ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
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“ The first and most difficult task of dialogue involves parking the ego and listening with an open spirit. From this receptivity can come questions which lead to understanding. To ask these questions requires that one no longer need to have the best or last answer… ”
- Ann McGee Cooper- Copy
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