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Quotes about Yield

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Life yields only to the conqueror. Votes: 4

Dag Hammarskjold

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. Votes: 4

Benjamin Franklin

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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Votes: 4

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. Votes: 4

Louis D. Brandeis

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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. Votes: 4

Thomas Jefferson

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. Votes: 4

Thomas Paine

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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. Votes: 4

Jack Kerouac

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. Votes: 4

Oscar Wilde

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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. Votes: 4

Helen Keller

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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. Votes: 4

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement. Votes: 4

Joseph Campbell

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When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future. Votes: 4

Therese of Lisieux

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To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results. Votes: 4

Grenville Kleiser

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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. Votes: 4

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire. Votes: 4

Thomas Overbury

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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. Votes: 4

Joseph Addison

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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy. Votes: 4

Dag Hammarskjold

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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. Votes: 4

Lawrence Durrell

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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. Votes: 4

Douglas MacArthur

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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked. Votes: 4

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. Votes: 4

Oscar Wilde

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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. Votes: 4

Khalil Gibran

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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? Votes: 4

Thomas Jefferson

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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong. Votes: 4

Bernard Baruch

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The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. Votes: 4

Henry James

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Yield all and trust all. Votes: 3

Marie Angelique Arnauld

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Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly. Votes: 3

Virgil

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Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly. Votes: 3

Virgil

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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. Votes: 3

Robert A. Heinlein

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Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to night! Votes: 3

William Shakespeare

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Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer. Votes: 3

Ovid

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Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely. Votes: 3

Virgil

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Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. Votes: 3

Aesop

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Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels. Votes: 3

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room. Votes: 3

Virginia Woolf

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Sookie," Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. "Yield to me." Well, that was pretty direct. Votes: 3

Charlaine Harris

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Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. Votes: 3

William Shakespeare

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Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988. Votes: 3

Jack Irons

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"Yield" was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988. Votes: 3

Jack Irons

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Let go of your past, and look to Mine, where I died for you. Yield to Me, and I will make you a true Knight of the Prince. Votes: 3

Chuck Black

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Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Votes: 3

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him. Votes: 3

John Smith

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Yield and overcome; Bend and be straight; Empty and be full; Wear out and be new; Have little and gain; Have much and be confused. ...The ancients say, "Yield and overcome." Is that an empty saying? Be really whole, And all things will come to you. Votes: 3

Laozi

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Hell itself must yield to industry. Votes: 0

Ben Jonson

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Courage never to submit of yield. Votes: 0

John Milton

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The barrier has begun to yield. Votes: 0

John Herschel

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Sow good seeds for a good yield. Votes: 0

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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We are free to yield to truth. Votes: 0

Horace

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Those that yield are not always weak Votes: 0

Jacqueline Carey

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Every seed planted, will yield bountiful harvest. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest. Votes: 0

Pindar

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When faith lays hold, impossibilities must yield. Votes: 0

Smith Wigglesworth

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results. Votes: 0

Creflo A. Dollar

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Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace. Votes: 0

Dalai Lama

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Under questioning, a terrorist should be made to yield. Votes: 0

Ami Ayalon

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When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield. Votes: 0

Peter Drucker

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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. Votes: 0

Quintilian

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To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it. Votes: 0

Madame de Stael

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You win the victory when you yield to friends. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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The crude real will not by itself yield truth. Votes: 0

Robert Bresson

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I must yield to you, for you are irresistible. Votes: 0

Plato

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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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It is fitting for a great nation to yield. Votes: 0

Laozi

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Only a new seed will yield a new crop. Votes: 0

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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Infinite is the help man can yield to man. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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The wife should yield in all things to her lord Votes: 0

Euripides

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Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism. Votes: 0

James Keller

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If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Votes: 0

B. C. Forbes

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Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield. Votes: 0

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic. Votes: 0

Hugo Rahner

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And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on. Votes: 0

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills. Votes: 0

Ramana Maharshi

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Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife. Votes: 0

John Milton

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To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before! Votes: 0

Edith M. Thomas

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A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. Votes: 0

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound. Votes: 0

Mark White

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Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked. Votes: 0

Ovid

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Only that which is got by hard effort will yield lasting benefit. Votes: 0

Sathya Sai Baba

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Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run, Votes: 0

Aldo Leopold

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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. Votes: 0

Quintilian

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Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic. Votes: 0

Stephen Mansfield

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Educate yourself. Learn everything you can and then let knowledge yield to kindness. Votes: 0

Bryant McGill

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When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us. Votes: 0

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust Votes: 0

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery. Votes: 0

Gerald May

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The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield. Votes: 0

George Lillo

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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. Votes: 0

Andre Gide

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Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people. Votes: 0

Clayton Christensen

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Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets. Votes: 0

Elsa Barker

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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact... Votes: 0

John Burroughs

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There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield. Votes: 0

Lewis Howard Latimer

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I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result Votes: 0

Aitzaz Ahsan

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I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd. Votes: 0

Anthony Hope

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Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time. Votes: 0

Thomas Love Peacock

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We must meditate, brothers. These grapes will yield no wine we tread upon it. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy. Votes: 0

Henry Miller

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All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time. Votes: 0

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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Conformity"the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. Votes: 0

Cornel West

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You may exist in this world--but I exist too and I will not yield Votes: 0

Matthew Quick

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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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Git'er DoneThey beat their swords upon their shieldsTo no beast or man would they yield Votes: 0

Muse

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Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other. Votes: 0

Henry Vaughan

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Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools. Votes: 0

Voltaire

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Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them? Votes: 0

P. G. Wodehouse

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Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us! Votes: 0

Eiji Yoshikawa

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I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it. Votes: 0

Edward Kennedy

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I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed. Votes: 0

Ariana Franklin

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[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern. Votes: 0

Sarah Moore Grimke

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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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When you're in love with God, you're not afraid to yield your life to Him. Votes: 0

Heidi Baker

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...And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield... Votes: 0

Don McLean

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True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield. Votes: 0

Elizabeth George

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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off. Votes: 0

Samuel Richardson

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Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Ferrars

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My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation. Votes: 0

Poul Anderson

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I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions. Votes: 0

Clara Schumann

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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power. Votes: 0

Hans Morgenthau

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride. Votes: 0

Lewis Howard Latimer

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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others. Votes: 0

B. C. Forbes

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If you wish to live in harmony, you must respect every person and, in non-essential matters, yield! Votes: 0

J.P. Vaswani

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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. Votes: 0

Virgil

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All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield Votes: 0

Earl Warren

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All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield. Votes: 0

Earl Warren

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Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?" -Royce Westmoreland Votes: 0

Judith McNaught

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What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed. Votes: 0

Susan Griffin

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The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced. Votes: 0

Calvin Coolidge

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When you yield yourself in complete and wholehearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you. Votes: 0

Jim George

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When you yield yourself in complete and whole-hearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you. Votes: 0

Jim George

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Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His. Votes: 0

Catherine Marshall

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Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure Votes: 0

Lettie Cowman

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We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties. Votes: 0

Joseph Cook

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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others. Votes: 0

Orison Swett Marden

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Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit. Votes: 0

Spencer W. Kimball

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There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love. Votes: 0

Virgil

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The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield. Votes: 0

Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her. Votes: 0

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations. Votes: 0

John Henry Holland

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No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely. Votes: 0

Mary Leakey

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Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting? Votes: 0

Eric Thomas

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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger. Votes: 0

John Denver

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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all. Votes: 0

John Locke

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Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter. Votes: 0

Thomas Brooks

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The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy Votes: 0

Abraham Maslow

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Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses. Votes: 0

Margaret Cavendish

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Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves. Votes: 0

Francois Fenelon

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Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection.... Votes: 0

Allen Tate

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To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive. Votes: 0

Saint Augustine

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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being. Votes: 0

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over? Votes: 0

Sophocles

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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed. Votes: 0

Otto von Bismarck

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Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us. Votes: 0

P.T. Forsyth

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The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield. Votes: 0

Jean-Baptiste Say

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In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. Votes: 0

Christian Nestell Bovee

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction. Votes: 0

Ann Radcliffe

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To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church. Votes: 0

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield. Votes: 0

John Milton

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The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth. Votes: 0

Robert Pollin

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Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. Votes: 0

Marshall McLuhan

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Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will. Votes: 0

Charles R. Swindoll

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She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable. Votes: 0

Louisa May Alcott

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Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength. Votes: 0

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will. Votes: 0

Joseph Glanvill

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The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me. Votes: 0

Oswald Chambers

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Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip! Votes: 0

Phoebe Cary

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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications. Votes: 0

Gary Becker

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The higher the yield, the higher the risk. A high yield is designed to attract investors. An outrageously high yield attracts fools. Votes: 0

Nancy Dunnan

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There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things. Votes: 0

David Cottrell

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Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. Votes: 0

Horace

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Networking is an investment in your business. It takes time and when done correctly can yield great results for years to come. Votes: 0

Diane Helbig

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Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher. Votes: 0

Confucius

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Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities. Votes: 0

Yvette Clarke

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The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down. Votes: 0

Neal A. Maxwell

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Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language Votes: 0

Jean Rostand

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To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. Votes: 0

Steven Pressfield

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If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will blossom, everything will yield. Votes: 0

Jaggi Vasudev

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For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results. Votes: 0

David Grubbs

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Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment.Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy Votes: 0

Leo Tolstoy

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The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield. Votes: 0

Bill McKibben

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That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this? Votes: 0

Joyce Carol Oates

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It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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I never liked quantitative easing. It's misunderstood by almost everybody. Flattening the yield curve is not stimulative; flattening the yield curve is anti-stimulative. Votes: 0

Kenneth Fisher

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It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments. Votes: 0

Sidney Altman

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The work of art ... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty. Votes: 0

Herbert Read

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To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious. Votes: 0

J. I. Packer

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The third-person or 'objective,' static, reductive models used in most science are important and yield significant results, but they have their limitations. Votes: 0

Siri Hustvedt

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Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27. Votes: 0

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth. Votes: 0

Peter Straub

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Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention. Votes: 0

Seth Berkley

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The person that goes regularly and intelligently to the Lord's Table finds it increasingly hard to yield to sin and conform to the world. Votes: 0

J. C. Ryle

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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. Votes: 0

F. H. Bradley

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We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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There are endless treasures of grace waiting for those who will make even the most feeble attempts to pray. The weakest prayers yield grace. Votes: 0

Paul Washer

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That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him. Votes: 0

Brother Lawrence

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Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in. Votes: 0

Dale Carnegie

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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could. Votes: 0

Walter Savage Landor

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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Votes: 0

Plutarch

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Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job. Votes: 0

Hanif Kureishi

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To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring. Votes: 0

Alexander Pushkin

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That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life Votes: 0

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas? Votes: 0

Abraham Cowley

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Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend. Votes: 0

John Kenneth Galbraith

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I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done. Votes: 0

Katharine Whitehorn

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Speak the truth, do not yield to anger, give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. Votes: 0

Confucius

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Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions. Votes: 0

Fritz Sauckel

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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market. Votes: 0

John Maynard Keynes

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A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest. Votes: 0

Jeff Cox

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It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit. Votes: 0

George Washington

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Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack. Votes: 0

Ovid

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Modern genetic engineering makes producing GMO food products relatively easy. GMOs can improve crop yield and greatly enhance the nutritional value of those same crops. Votes: 0

Richard J. Roberts

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Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle. Votes: 0

Earl Warren

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Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will. Votes: 0

John McCain

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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun. Votes: 0

B.K.S. Iyengar

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You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Borrow money only for an education that will yield enough of a return in the job market to allow you to pay your loans back. Votes: 0

Kevin Carey

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Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman. Votes: 0

Luigi Pirandello

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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight. Votes: 0

Robert Frost

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The Chinese government would yield to the pressure from its people: it would be forced to give orders to fight - to defend its motherland! Votes: 0

Andre Vltchek

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Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. Votes: 0

Confucius

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A strong plan of action will yield you quantum results and will ensure that you donât fall into the familiar patterns of your past. Votes: 0

Debbie Ford

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I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age. Votes: 0

Paul Krugman

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The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds. Votes: 0

Paul D. Boyer

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We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions. Votes: 0

Lech Walesa

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I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding. Votes: 0

Socrates

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Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death. Votes: 0

Silas Weir Mitchell

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Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors? Votes: 0

Elizabeth Warren

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War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

William Ellery Channing

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I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again Votes: 0

Emily Dickinson

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The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God. Votes: 0

William Ames

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If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield. Votes: 0

Anne Hutchinson

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Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. Votes: 0

Peter Singer

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We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures. Votes: 0

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

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The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else. Votes: 0

June Jordan

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And we support Senator Joseph Lieberman, that it's time for our country to consider a military preemptive strike against Iran if they will not yield to diplomacy Votes: 0

John Hagee

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Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome . Votes: 0

Maria Weston Chapman

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Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results. Votes: 0

Rick Riordan

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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death. Votes: 0

Zane Grey

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Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post. Votes: 0

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself. Votes: 0

Paul Gauguin

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No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare. Votes: 0

Charles Lindbergh

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I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf. Votes: 0

George Chapman

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We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made. Votes: 0

Walter Brueggemann

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The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him. Votes: 0

Giuseppe Verdi

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For investors who do want to speculate in high-yield bonds, one alternative may be a junk bond mutual fund, which can offer investors the relative safety of diversification. Votes: 0

Alex Berenson

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In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and interest, in real time. Votes: 0

James Fenton

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You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess Votes: 0

Mortimer Collins

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Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price. Votes: 0

George Stigler

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The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. Votes: 0

Martin Luther

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there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth. Votes: 0

Eleanor Dark

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Emeritus John Farrington said, "Sometimes God's creation does not yield to scientific research without great effort and our results are not always what we would like or predicted. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor. Votes: 0

Edward Kennedy

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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round. Votes: 0

Arnold Bennett

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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will. Votes: 0

Marquis de Sade

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A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield. Votes: 0

James O'Shaughnessy

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Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes. Votes: 0

Thom Gunn

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Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway. Votes: 0

Shirley Jackson

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Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God. Votes: 0

Hubert Van Zeller

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Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield. Votes: 0

Frances Power Cobbe

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You have hedge funds and people like that buying these assets to yield 15 or 20 percent, I mean, that's the buyer for these people that are trying to unload them. Votes: 0

Warren Buffett

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My other work, teaching, also is satisfying because I can be with people but in controlled circumstances, which aren't as likely to yield the pain of dealing with family. Votes: 0

Phillip Lopate

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Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield. Votes: 0

Bobby Sands

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...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current. Votes: 0

Ted Dekker

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If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will. Votes: 0

Adrian Rogers

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An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view. Votes: 0

Samuel Eliot Morison

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To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return. Votes: 0

John Marshall

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If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them. Votes: 0

Samuel Adams

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The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept. Votes: 0

Samuel R. Delany

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I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but once, and then die. Votes: 0

Edward John Trelawny

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DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia , are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts. Votes: 0

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar. Votes: 0

David Crystal

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And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best. Votes: 0

Thucydides

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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. Votes: 0

Immanuel Kant

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Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady. Votes: 0

Sylvia Earle

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The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker. Votes: 0

Arthur W. Pink

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I feel myself withering away. The leafs of a soul fall and fall...naked branches left behind. I look up at the sky, yield and let my tears come down. Votes: 0

Eiry Nieves

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Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning. Votes: 0

Helen Keller

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My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more. Votes: 0

Abraham Cowley

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Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him. Votes: 0

Teresa of Avila

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I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow. Votes: 0

Stonewall Jackson

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Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share. Votes: 0

Bernard Baruch

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Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat. Votes: 0

Alexandra Paul

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Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site. Votes: 0

Abdul Kalam

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Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site. Votes: 0

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image. Votes: 0

Paul Brunton

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What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three. Votes: 0

Roy H. Williams

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The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals,water, and air;shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife. Votes: 0

Toby Hemenway

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Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time. Votes: 0

Marcus Buckingham

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If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results. Votes: 0

Charlene Li

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Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays. Votes: 0

Aldo Leopold

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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized. Votes: 0

Muhammad Iqbal

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Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. Votes: 0

Robert E. Lee

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In Kenya, where there isn't the luxury of feeding grains to animals, livestock yield more calories than they consume because they are fattened on grass and agricultural by-products inedible to humans. Votes: 0

Tristram Stuart

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Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first. Votes: 0

S. N. Goenka

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A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield. Votes: 0

Laozi

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You are the only real authority in your life, but you yield that status to so many externals by believing in them, by having been punished or forced into accepting them. Votes: 0

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

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Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge. Votes: 0

Herman Melville

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Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and now a televised African dance champion? Votes: 0

Giles Smith

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I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone Votes: 0

Feist

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Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful flowers, and the most delicious fruits. Votes: 0

Dorothea Dix

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When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when religion contradicts science on matters of fact, religion must yield. Votes: 0

Frank Wilczek

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And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked. Votes: 0

Alexandre Dumas

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There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world. Votes: 0

John Ruskin

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When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation. Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

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To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield more accurate self-appraisal than using the accomplishments of dissimilar peers Votes: 0

Albert Bandura

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A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin. Votes: 0

James Gleick

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It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own. Votes: 0

Giacomo Leopardi

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You are exactly who the Greatest You (aka God) most wanted to be, not a frail offshoot who must bow, curtsey, and yield to this "higher power" but an unbeknownst Lord yourself. Votes: 0

Mike Dooley

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The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Votes: 0

Joseph Goebbels

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If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow. Votes: 0

Rick Warren

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This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will ever, that experience yield Which his own genius only could acquire. Votes: 0

Mark Akenside

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The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands. Votes: 0

Robert Grosseteste

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This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire. Votes: 0

Mark Akenside

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I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God. Votes: 0

Mary Doria Russell

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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war thrust upon us and we cannot yield to tyranny. Votes: 0

Francis Spellman

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Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature. Votes: 0

James L. Buckley

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One component of the leading economic indicators is the yield curve. Bond investors keep a close eye on this, as it illustrates the spread or difference between long-term interest rates and short-term ones. Votes: 0

Kenneth Fisher

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Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds. Votes: 0

Jonathan Gottschall

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When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them. Votes: 0

Max Horkheimer

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Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes. Votes: 0

Ellen G. White

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A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty... Votes: 0

Walter Cronkite

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The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even though it were condemned by all other artists as anti-musical. Votes: 0

Giuseppe Verdi

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Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation. Votes: 0

Clayton Christensen

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Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants. Votes: 0

John Katzman

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Unilever, Nestle and SAB Miller are all taking a long-term approach to investing in sustainable resource consumption. Each is driving through better resource management, which is expected to yield positive returns in the future. Votes: 0

Jacob Rothschild

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All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him. Votes: 0

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life. Votes: 0

Gabourey Sidibe

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It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. Votes: 0

Sitting Bull

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The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Within one year of starting work, I had found that the nucleus of an endoderm cell from an advanced tadpole was able to yield some normal development up to the nuclear transplant tadpole stage. Votes: 0

John Gurdon

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It is clear that no one will achieve any kind of objective through the force of violence, and that no one will make Spaniards yield to threats of guns, whoever may be holding them Votes: 0

Jose Maria Aznar

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Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid. Votes: 0

Barbara Hepworth

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Some folks of cider make a rout And cider's well enough no doubt When better liquors fail; But wine, that's richer, better still, Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will) Must yield to nappy ale Votes: 0

John Gay

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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die. Votes: 0

Xun Zi

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The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them. Votes: 0

Harriet Martineau

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If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota. Votes: 0

John W. Gardner

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Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time. Votes: 0

H. P. Blavatsky

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Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room. Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf

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Your faith in Jesus Christ gives life enduring meaning. Remember you are on a journey to exaltation. Sometimes you have experiences that yield more happiness than others, but it all has purpose with the Lord. Votes: 0

Richard G. Scott

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There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations. Votes: 0

Hamilton Wright Mabie

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How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them! Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield. Votes: 0

David O. McKay

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An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded to a man before, and that without would or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now. Votes: 0

Howard Pyle

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In the name of God, Monsieur, let us not be so little attached to God's service that we yield to a useless fear which may cause us to abandon the task He has given us. Votes: 0

Vincent de Paul

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On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.

Thomas Carlyle

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Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

Robert Frost

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So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are in His hand, at His sovereign disposal. We must accept that as best.

John Owen

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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.

Alexander Pope

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To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

Rita Dove

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A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

D. H. Lawrence

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And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice....

Gunter Grass

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If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and how to be flexible and to collaborate and compromise, and that may yield a creative outcome.

J. Richard Hackman

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Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

Honore de Balzac

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The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars; but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others.

John Calvin

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You would expect to see that first in high-yield [debt], but it was in the most liquid thing in the world. So that, I think - it's a little bit of a warning that we've got to be prepared and just be careful.

Jamie Dimon

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Your teaching must have the integrity of serious, sound words to which no one can take exception. If it does, no opponent will be able to find anything bad to say about us, and hostility will yield to shame.

Paul the Apostle

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Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement, making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth.

George Washington

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It is only by yielding to God that we can begin to realize His will for us. And if we truly trust God, why not yield to His loving omniscience? After all, He knows us and our possibilities much better than do we.

Neal A. Maxwell

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Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.

Aldo Leopold

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There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.

Henry Ford

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What is it like being single? I like it! I like starting each day with a sense of possibility. And I'm optimistic, because everyday I get a little more desperate. And desperate situations yield the quickest results.

Michael Scott

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The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.

Holly Black

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A fundamental principle of information theory is that you can't guarantee outcomes"¦ in order for an experiment to yield knowledge, it has to be able to fail. If you have guaranteed experiments, you have zero knowledge

George Gilder

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There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in the fossil record. It is gradualism that we must reject, not Darwinism.

Stephen Jay Gould

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It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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In order to better charge Moscow with human rights violations, the United States had to bend with regard to the more excessive aspects of Jim Crow. It had to yield to the insistent cries on the ground here in this country.

Gerald Horne

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The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent

Nelson Mandela

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By learning to yield to the loving authority... of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life " his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers.

James Dobson

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The Universe is not discriminating about the rightness or the wrongness of your request. It is here to accommodate all requests. All you have to do is be a Vibrational Match to your request, and the Universe will yield it to you.

Esther Hicks

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The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art of honeyed words but not to seem neutral, and above all to keep constantly audible, visible, likable, even kissable.

Learned Hand

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Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.

Abraham Lincoln

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There are prayers that help us last through the day, or endure the night. There are prayers of friends and strangers, that give us strength for the journey. And there are prayers that yield our will to a will greater than our own...

George W. Bush

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The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and their patience for activities that take time and problems that don't yield immediate solutions.

Hillary Clinton

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All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God has already established the laws. It is four us to discover them, and to learn the facts by which we can obey them.

Wheeler McMillen

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If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it's through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture.

Shepard Fairey

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If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument.

Thomas Campbell

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Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?

Empress Dowager Cixi

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The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders, into intemperate and pernicious resolutions.

James Madison

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Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.

Bruce Mau

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I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour. I am endeavouring that others, in their turn, will be obliged to yield to my good fortune, and my valour.

Hannibal

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Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

Charles Dickens

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How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?

Abraham Kuyper

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To what profit is it that we dwell in Jerusalem, if we do not see the King's face? And when He comes forth from His royal chambers, accompanied with blessing, are we to hold ourselves at leisure that we may yield Him worship and offer Him service?

David McIntyre

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Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You canât get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.

Bill Johnson

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As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.

Martin Luther

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If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on the other, must yield to a new vision that connects us with everything else and leads us to care for and take responsibility for it.

Huston Smith

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By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou art even weary of contending, and art utterly ready to faint, yet that there is enough in Jesus Christ to yield thee relief...

John Owen

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the value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income.

Bill Mollison

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Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.

Wafa Sultan

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Is there a rarer being, Is there a fairer sphere Where the strong are not unseeing, And the harvests are not sere; Where, ere the seasons dwindle They yield their due return; Where the lamps of knowledge kindle While the flames of youth still burn?

Edmund Clarence Stedman

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The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness and aggrandizement of one, or a few, and to this the public felicity, and every other interest must submit.

Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

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If you want to be creative, don't try to do something new. Doing something new means NOT doing what's been done before, and that's a negative impulse. Negative impulses are frustrating. They're the opposite of creativity, and they never yield good ideas...

Eva Zeisel

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When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1/20th of one percent, that means the whole country is basically at the point virtually, or a lot of the country is at the point of putting the money under the mattress.

Warren Buffett

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Those who possess that treasure which no thief can take away, Which, though on suppliants freely spent, increaseth day by day, The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth-- To them e'en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.

Bhartrhari

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No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

Anne Rice

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...we shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at exciting strife and tumults, so as to draw us away from what is good? Let us cleave, therefore, to those who cultivate peace with godliness?

John of Damascus

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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

Pearl S. Buck

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You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger painting. But not all subjects or light conditions appear that way... be sensible and paint with values that are appropriate and faithful to your subject.

Richard Schmid

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Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.

Russell M. Nelson

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There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.

Isaac Barrow

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Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites.

Michael Pollan

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Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.

Thomas Jefferson

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It is when the product is not good enough that proprietary integration gives you a competitive edge. You cannot outsource and be competitively successful in this situation. But at the other end, where standard components assembled in standard ways can yield acceptable performance, you must outsource.

Clayton Christensen

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Kyoto is likely to yield far less than the targeted emissions reduction. That failure will most likely be papered over with creative accounting, shifting definitions of carbon sinks, and so on. If this happens, the credibility of the international process for addressing climate change will be at risk.

Henry Sylvester Jacoby

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