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• Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Truth, Ruins

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

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• What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!

  Karl Kraus

  Sex, Excess, Bacchus

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty is nothing but freedom. And that total surrender is obedience. If I belong to God, if I belong to Christ, then he must be able to use me. That is obedience. Then we give wholehearted service to the poor. That is service. They complete each other. That is our life.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Religion, Able

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• The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone
  is yours if you surrender
  sterile logic, trivial reason.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Faith, Magic, Stones

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.533, New Directions Publishing

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• Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

  Leigh Brackett

  War, Alternatives, Empire Strikes Back

  "Fictional character: C-3PO". "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Suffering, Guilt, Hardest

  Nathaniel Branden (2011). “How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence”, p.83, Bantam

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• While, as I recall, conservative little boys practice quick draw with their cap guns while playing cowboys and Indians, apparently liberal little boys practice how fast they can throw up their hands to surrender to the guys in the black hats.

  Tony Blankley

  Gun, Boys, Cowboy

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• If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Determination, Men

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• It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Art, Sacrifice, Technology

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Awful, Atomic Bomb

  Newsweek, p. 107, November 11, 1963.

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• Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Lasts, Miscellaneous

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• We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town. We won't surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Fighting, Oasis, Valleys

  "Gaddafi vows: 'We won't surrender again; we are not women'" by Luke Harding, Julian Borger, www.aljazeera.com. September 1, 2001.

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• We must be unafraid to be utterly honest, to honor our gut feelings, and to say and do the unpopular when necessary. We have to give up our addiction to other people's opinions and surrender to the freedom of acting with strength and courage.

  Suzanne Falter-Barns

  Giving Up, Addiction, People

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• Never give in, never surrender, Never allow despair to overcome your spirit.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Giving, Despair, Overcoming

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• We Aryans are those of European descent who are racially conscious and who have committed our lives to our people's survival and evolutionary advancement. We shall do our duty. We shall not surrender our freedom and our very existence to Jewish or any other power. We shall preserve our heritage and our hard-won rights and freedoms. We shall guide our people up the evolutionary stairway to the stars.

  David Duke

  Stars, Rights, Ku Klux Klan

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• The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Preparation, Rehearsal, Worship

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• Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.

  Gerry Spence

  World, Opponents, Bloody

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• The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically embraces any party line is guilty of an idolatrous surrender of her core identity as Abba's Child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses our ragged human dignity.

  Brennan Manning

  Religious, Children, Party

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• Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Success, Compassion, Understanding

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• America has many glories. The last one that she would wish to surrender is the glory of the men who have served her in war. While such devotion lives, the nation is secure. Whatever dangers may threaten from within or without, she can view them calmly. Turning to her veterans, she can say: 'These are our defenders. They are invincible. In them is our safety.'

  Calvin Coolidge

  War, Men, Views

  "America and the War". Speech by Calvin Coolidge, en.wikisource.org. 1920.

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• To experience emotional freedom, we must accept, surrender, and let go of our wounds. We must be willing to take responsibility for what we're holding on to, which is usually a hurt or pain from the past that leaves us feeling victimized.

  Debbie Ford

  Letting Go, Hurt, Pain

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• The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation, and surrender.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Success, Tools, Cooperation

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• Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.

  Allan Bloom

  Powerful, Looks, Way

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology.

  Pope Francis

  Life, Technology, Situation

  Pope Francis, McDonagh, Sean (2016). “On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment”, p.153

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• Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in your own hearts.

  Nicholas Evans

  Heart, Sometimes, Seems

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