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Quotes About Reciprocity

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.
~ Mark Twain
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
~ Mark Twain
However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that.
~ Mark Twain
It's not so much that the old friend is a better friend. It's just that you know the person better, and you know they don't really care if you're acting like a poor, grovelling idiot. They know you would do the same for them.
~ Markus Zusak
Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth
~ Marshall McLuhan
Cómo puede una nación en su conjunto constituir un "ambiente facilitador" que calme el miedo y proteja la reciprocidad democrática?
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
Sometimes love was to be grasped in any form and in any manner it was offered. And sometimes love must be given in the same way.
~ Mary Balogh
You have love all wrong, Gwendoline. It is not all give, give, give. It is taking as well. It is allowing the other one the pleasure and joy of giving. Let me love you.
~ Mary Balogh
Doing good induces others to reciprocate.
~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
The tired wisdom of knowing that what goes around eventually comes around.
~ Arundhati Roy
I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.
~ Ayn Rand
Any human being who accepts the help of another, knows that good will is the giver's only motive and that good will is the payment he owes in return.
~ Ayn Rand
Do you know what she did today? He leaned confidentially across the table, pointing at the dishes in the sink. She went to the market and left all the breakfast dishes there and said she'd do them later. I know what she wanted. She expected me to do them. Well, I'll fool her. I'll leave them just where they are.
~ Ayn Rand
It would be difficult to write about Véra without mentioning Vladimir. But it would be impossible to write about Vladimir without mentioning Véra.
~ Stacy Schiff
We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.
~ Stephen Baxter
I think that's the nature of many relationships anyway, most relationships. There's that element of….you would call it prostitution.
~ Stephen Fried
A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.
~ Stephen King
Bring to the table what you want to take away from the table!
~ Stan The Man SA
If you simply love the Universe, the Universe can't help but love you straight back!
~ Mary-Ellen Peters
Forgive those who hurt you yesterday.Reward those who help you today.Remember those who help you tomorrow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is a rule of life that we eventually become victims of the evil we do to others.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
Love is giving everything and taking nothing
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
~ Confucius