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• When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  House, Steps, Instinct

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.398, Penguin

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• I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Song, Block, Spring

  Gabriela Mistral (2009). “Madwomen: The "Locas mujeres" Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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• All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your critique group tells you. Submit your manuscripts and keep submitting until you get an offer. Then you can be crazy, with a paycheck.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Crazy, Writing, Editors

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• In conclusion, the submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give,' brothers and sisters, are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us. However, when you and I finally submit ourselves, by letting our individual wills be swallowed up in God's will, then we are really giving something to Him! It is the only possession which is truly ours to give!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Brother, Giving, Individual

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• A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Good Man, Ready

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• The change that is coming to the body of Christ is so profound that the world will have a new definition of Christianity... Those who submit to Him in truth... will be the most dangerous and powerful people on earth, and will be the greatest threat to the Antichrist spirit that now sits in the church as a substitute for Him.

  Rick Joyner

  Powerful, People, Profound

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• Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life.

  Khalid ibn al-Walid

  Men, People, Islam

  Khalid ibn al-Walid's letter to the Persian monarch Emperor Yazdegerd III, as quoted in John Clark Ridpath "History of the World, Volume IV (Book XII: The Mohammedan Ascendency, p. 463), 1910.

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• We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Agency, Moral, Influence

  "Finding Safety in Counsel". Henry B. Eyring's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 1997.

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• Our entire case as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rests on the validity of this glorious First Vision. ... Nothing on which we base our doctrine, nothing we teach, nothing we live by is of greater importance than this initial declaration. I submit that if Joseph Smith talked with God the Father and His Beloved Son, then all else of which he spoke is true. This is the hinge on which turns the gate that leads to the path of salvation and eternal life.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Father, Son

  "What Are People Asking about Us?" by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. November 1998.

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• To achieve charity, we must submit, become patient, meek, humble. . . . We must exercise the love of God as a power.

  F. Enzio Busche

  Love, Humble, Exercise

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• While it is true that the taking of life not yet born or in it's final stages is sometimes marked by a mistaken sense of altruism and human compassion it cannot be denied that such a culture of death, taken as a whole, betrays a completely individualistic concept of freedom, which ends up by becoming the freedom of "the strong" against the weak who have no choice but to submit.

  Pope John Paul II

  Strong, Taken, Compassion

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• Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

  John Ruskin

  Time, Thinking, Feelings

  "Selected writings: Edited and introduced by Peter Quennell".

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• It may happen that the enemies of Islam may consider it expedient not to take any action against Islam, if Islam leaves them alone in their geographical boundaries to continue the lordship of some men over others and does not extend its message and its declaration of universal freedom within their domain. But Islam cannot agree to this unless they submit to its authority by paying Jizyah, which will be a guarantee that they have opened their doors for the preaching of Islam and will not put any obstacle in its way through the power of the state.

  Sayyid Qutb

  Men, Doors, Guarantees That

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• There were other Anti-Christs among the Nephites, but they were more military leaders than religious innovators... they are all of one breed and brand; so nearly alike that one mind is the author of them, and that a young and underdeveloped, but piously inclined mind. The evidence I sorrowfully submit, points to Joseph Smith as their creator. It is difficult to believe that they are a product of history, that they came upon the scene separated by long periods of time, and among a race which was the ancestral race of the red man of America.

  B. H. Roberts

  Religious, Military, Believe

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• Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.

  Watchman Nee

  Jesus, Giving Up, Holiness

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.113, CLC Publications

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• For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.

  Nora Roberts

  Years, Rejection, Stories

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• The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

  Goldwin Smith

  Discipline, House, Soldier

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

  Isabel Paterson

  Betrayal, Men, Race

  "The God of the Machine" by Isabel Paterson, (p. 292), 1943.

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• The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

  Horace Walpole

  Respect, Philosophy, World

  Horace Walpole (1967). “The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence”

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• A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually.

  Erich Fromm

  Trying, Suggestions, Doe

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.133, Open Road Media

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• If I were an Indian...I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains, rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation.

  George Armstrong Custer

  People, Limits, Reservations

  George Armstrong Custer (1874). “My Life on the Plains: Or, Personal Experiences with Indians”, p.18

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• We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

  Nick Rahall

  Compromise, Wilderness, Process

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• The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we seek to condemn and punish, have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Responsibility, Civilization, Hands

  Opening statement for the prosecution before International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, 21 Nov. 1945

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• I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Butterfly, Age, Cocoons

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• Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to live in harmony with natural laws and universal principles. Courage is the father of all virtues; we need great courage to lead our lives by correct principles and to have integrity in the moment of choice.

  Stephen Covey

  Mother, Father, Integrity

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