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• I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my individuality. Better rot in the windowless tomb, to which there is no door but the red mouth of the pallid worm, than to wear the jeweled collar of a god.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Doors, Giving, Heaven

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.107, Library of Alexandria

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• If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.

  L. Neil Smith

  Moving, Expression, Victory

  "Some New Tactical Reflections". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 15, 1998.

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• Part of the thrill of guiding children into adulthood is the release. But it's also a parent's greatest act of surrender. Still, you have to let them go. Start now.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Children, Parent, Thrill

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There”, p.68, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Creativity, Musician, Music Business

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.21, Penguin

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• When you pray, pray so that you may know Him. When you seek to simplify, do it as a means of knowing Him more. When you surrender, or behave with humility or sacrifice, do it with the sole purpose in mind to know Him.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Mean, Humility, Sacrifice

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• We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Light, Yoke

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• Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.

  William H. Whyte

  Differences, Goal, Acquiescence

  William H. Whyte (2013). “The Organization Man”, p.10, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?

  Francis Chan

  Way, Impossible, Please

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.80, David C Cook

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• Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.

  James Cook

  Belief, Victim, Birthright

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• Teach children tolerance. No one need surrender his or her own beliefs while extending tolerance to those with other beliefs.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Tolerance, Needs

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.186, Harmony

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• Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Attitude, Mean, Knowing

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• Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

  Kenny Werner

  Play, Instinct, Intellect

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug, Psychedelic, Plant

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• History has shown more than once that when people surrender totalitarian powers to their rulers, they are inevitably exercised in the next big crisis. And let's not forget here that the next president who wields this power and who will be in charge of military might well be Hillary Clinton.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Military, People, President

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• When we surrender every area of our lives- including our finances-to God, then we are free to trust Him to meet our needs. But if we would rather hold tightly to those things that we possess, then we find ourselves in bondage to those very things.

  Larry Burkett

  Needs, Finance, Bondage

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• Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

  Marlon Brando

  Momentum, Mediocrity, Never Surrender

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• We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

  Barack Obama

  America, Innovation, Today

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• What I do is work for three or four years and then I take a year off, and then I come back again and work for three or four years and then take another year off. It is not about just working and then writing for a year. That is not how it is structured. It is about doing very conscious goal-driven activities for four years and then taking a year off in complete surrender to discover facets of myself that I don't know exist and exploring interests with no commercial value associated with them at all.

  Karan Bajaj

  Writing, Years, Goal

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to be battered by them. It gives you access to a deep knowledge of how you would respond to things you would never, thank goodness, have been required to experience.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Book, Giving, Feelings

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• Any action taken will be against the terrorist network of Bin Laden.... As for the Taleban, they can surrender the terrorists or face the consequences - and again in any action the aim will be to eliminate their military hardware, cut off their finances, disrupt their supplies, target their troops, not civilians.

  Tony Blair

  Military, Taken, Cutting

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• Where did I surrender, can you tell me how and when. I'm the one who's always in control. Leading with my heart like there is nothing to defend as I lay it all out on the line body and soul. I've never let another in so soon.

  Toby Keith

  Fall, Heart, Soul

  Song: Yet, Album: Dream Walkin', 1997

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• it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why.

  Patti Davis

  Eye, Dying, Age

  Patti Davis (2011). “The Long Goodbye”, p.30, Knopf

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• The Toltec tradition tells us that we surrender a portion of our life force when we dwell on any unhealed wounding event from our past. The unprocessed emotions surrounding these events burden us and weigh heavily on our hearts. They must be dealt with if we want access to all of our vitality. Ultimately, what we will find is that forgiveness is the key to reclaiming all the life force locked in past hurt.

  Debbie Ford

  Hurt, Heart, Past

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• Angels is a tough word, because it is so involved with organized religion and everything else. I do know, absolutely, from my experience, there are some kind of spiritual entities - force, power, intelligence - that guide me through each and every day, as long as I'm willing to accept, recognize, and surrender to their guidance. It's always there, but there are times when I insist upon having my way.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Spiritual, Angel, Long

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• People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.

  Carolyn Hax

  Baby, People, Behave

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