reciprocity

• All the poetry and all the picturesqueness of the country transform and embellish the story In Jacques we have the history of a man unhappily married, and this, through the reciprocity which is inevitable under the circumstances, is another story of a woman unhappily married At the age of thirty-five, after a stormy existence, in which years count double, Jacques marries Fernande, a woman much younger than he is. —  George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
• To be a wave at all implies some reciprocity, a give and take. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 05 - May 2001
• It is easier to make people value those rights more, if they can be convinced to believe that they have been bestowed by this anthropomorphized supernatural being that the majority had a virtual relationship with, in common, than by the principle of reciprocity which is really the root of it. —  Latest Articles
• The use of the concept of reciprocity, then, lies in the analysis of a cause: we must not think of reciprocity as obtaining in the succession of cause and effect, as if the effect could turn back upon its cause; for as the effect arises its cause disappears, and is irrecoverable by Nature or Magic. —  Logic Deductive and Inductive
• Moral precepts, religious brotherhood, higher education by force of example, a sense of justice applied to the fair apportioning of influence, vested rights, and a reasonable idea of reciprocity--all such things are moonshine for Prussia. —  The Schemes of the Kaiser

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