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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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• For most Northerners, Texas is the home of real men. The cowboys, the rednecks, the outspoken self-made right-wing millionaires strike us as either the best or worst examples of American manliness.... The ideal is not an illusion nor is it contemptible, no matter what damage it may have done. Many people who scorn it in conversation want to submit to it in bed. Those who believe machismo reeks of violence alone choose to forget it once stood for honor as well.

  Edmund White

  Real, Believe, Home

  1980 States of Desire: Travels in Gay America, ch.5.

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• Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.

  Homer

  Kings, Hate, Men

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• Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.

  David Hume

  Wisdom, Men, Law

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.180

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• What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

  Rex Stout

  Body, Tongue

  Rex Stout (2010). “Too Many Cooks”, p.79, Bantam

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• I leave you, home,
  when I'm ripped from the doorstep
  by commerce or fate. Then I submit
  to the awful subway of the world.

  Anne Sexton

  Home, Fate, World

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is how it must be. I knew it with every nerve, and every hair, every heartbeat, so sweet it verged on pain. And what joy to submit to this 'must'. A piece of iron must feel such joy as it submits to the precise, inevitable law that draws it to a magnet. Or a stone, thrown up, hesitating a moment, then plunging headlong back to earth. Or a man, after the final agony, taking a last deep breath — and dying.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Sweet, Pain, Men

  Yevgeny Zamyatin “We”, Two-Gunner Pulp Press

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• She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Men, Order

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• Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ambition, Wish, Looks

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• Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand reports of frightened and illiterate peasants who claim to have seen miracles or to have had encounters with messiahs and prophets and redeemers who were, like them, mere humans. And this is also why we will never submit to dictation from those who display a fanatical belief in certainty and revelation.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Writing, Hands

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• As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready for this level of oral hygiene.

  Bill Bryson

  Hygiene, Needs, Thumbs

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Big Country: Journey Into the American Dream”, p.121, Random House

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