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• Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

  Thales

  Thinking, Stronger, Active

  "Business Management Controls: A Guide". P. 55. Book by John Kyriazoglou, 2012.

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• Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Patriotic, People

  "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass". The Illustrated Edition,

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• Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Birthday, Faith, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Oh, to have “the word of Christ” always dwelling inside of us;-in the memory, never forgotten; in the heart, always loved; in the understanding, really grasped; with all the powers and passions of the mind fully submitted to its control!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Memories, Passion, Heart

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 46: Sermons 2603-2655”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Order, Religion

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• When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  James Hudson Taylor (2007). “Union and Communion Or, Thoughts on the Song of Solomon”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Put on the new man by renewing your mind with God's Word and submitting your body to the authority of that Word.

  T. B. Joshua

  Men, Mind, Body

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• Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Courage, Honesty

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• Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers.

  Benjamin

  Doctors, Medicine, People

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• There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.

  William Wilberforce

  Christian, Heart, Mind

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• Only the man who follows the command of Jesus single-mindedly, and unresistingly lets his yoke rest upon him, finds his burden easy, and under its gentle pressure receives the power to persevere in the right way. The command of Jesus is hard, unutterably hard, for those who try to resist it. But for those who willingly submit, the yoke is easy, and the burden is light.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Men, Light

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.33, SCM Press

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• Ive been told that if I lose weight Id have more work, but I refuse to submit myself to Hollywood standards. To the rest of the world I am slim and I like the way I am.

  Liv Tyler

  Hollywood, World, Weight

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• The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

  Stephen King

  Wise, Dream, Children

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.449, Anchor

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• Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Discipline, Force, Contact

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Independent, Men, Order

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

  Simone Weil

  Intelligent, Intelligence, Roles

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.130, Psychology Press

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• Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Race, Government, Wind

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.253, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Kindness, Breathing, Independence

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.148

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• Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  House, Four, Nine

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• Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Lines, Pay, Firsts

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

  Paul Ryan

  Health, Thinking, Government

  "Remarks by The President In Discussion of the Deficit at Bipartisan Meeting on Health Care Reform". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 25, 2010.

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• While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.

  Plutarch

  Kings, Army, Greek

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• The Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Ease, Bears, Lord

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• Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought; were free like smoke, were free to come and go like ghosts. They have no suffering there, she thought.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Suffering, Ghost

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• The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Truth Is, Authority, Ifs

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