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• Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!

  Hafez

  Fate, Woe, Dupes

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• A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Sleep, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1338, Delphi Classics

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• There's a lot of research that suggests that organic yields are close or superior to conventional yields depending on factors like climate. In a drought year an organic field of corn will yield more - considerably more - than a conventional field; organic fields hold moisture better so they don't need as much water. It simply isn't true that organic yields are lower than conventional yields.

  Michael Pollan

  Years, Water, Climate

  "Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner (Extended Interview)". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia, are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Lakes, Arabia, Size

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VII, Chapter III, Section 8), circa 15 BC.

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• The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Expectations, Investing, Facts

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.132, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Leadership, Pride, Dark

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3409, Delphi Classics

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• Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Discipline, Consistency, Balance

  "On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1841.

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• Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial portfolio turnover tend to reduce investment yields. Many people will find the guarantee of playing the stock-market game at par every round a very attractive one. The index fund is a sensible, serviceable method for obtaining the market's rate of return with absolutely no effort and minimal expense.

  Burton Malkiel

  Games, People, Effort

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• Politeness costs little and yields much.

  Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

  Cost, Littles, Politeness

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• Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Medicine, Reason, Operations

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• When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Fear, Mind, Weakness

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.1133, Delphi Classics

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• By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed in the Constitution of our country; and that human nature can be driven to a certain extent when it will yield no further.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Country, Freedom, America

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• The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Opportunity, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.318, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Since God is the end of man, since he has created us to be perfect and happy in him, it is manifest that if the designs of creation have not here below been entirely frustrated, there should be found men who tend to their end in seeking and loving God. And nevertheless, because of human liberty, there should also be found other men who neglect God, their principle and their end, and yield to the seduction of created things. Such indeed is the spectacle which the history of the world unceasingly presents to us.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Men, Perfect, Design

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• But these dear boys and girls--there is, something to be made out of them. If now they yield themselves to Christ they may have a long, happy, and holy day before them in which they may serve God with all then hearts. Who knows what glory God may have of them? Heathen lands may call them blessed. Whole nations may be enlightened by them. O brethren and sisters, let us estimate children at their true valuation, and we shall not keep them back, but we shall be eager to lead them to Jesus at once.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Girl, Jesus, Children

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• From the prophets' dreams of the time when nations would beat their swords into plowshares to today's aspirations of a nuclear-weapons-free world, we have sought to avoid armed conflict and not yield to despair in the search for universal peace. The nuclear threats from Iran, North Korea, and terrorists can only be overcome through international cooperation. We call upon Congressional leaders and those worldwide to join together to ensure the fulfillment of these long-overdue initiatives and the achievement of a safer future without nuclear weapons.

  David Saperstein

  Dream, Religious, Iran

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• To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

  Steven Pressfield

  Resistance, Spirit, Born

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.21, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Mind, Stories, World

  Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.

  Henri Bergson

  Army, Animal, Men

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.224, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You must not be discouraged or let yourself become dejected if your actions have not succeeded as perfectly as you intended. What do you expect? We are made of clay and not every soil
  yields the fruits expected by the one who tills it. But let us always humble ourselves and acknowledge that we are nothing if we lack the Divine assistance.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Humble, Clay, Soil

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• All money for agricultural extension, land grant universities has been toward developing industrial food. Lots of money has been invested toward maximizing yield. If you took even a small amount of that money and put it toward organic research, I don't have any doubts you could match those yields.

  Michael Pollan

  Land, Doubt, Research

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable. All intelligence seems reflected in them. They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by experience. Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. The woods do not yield another such a gem.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Memorable, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.

  James A. Garfield

  Lonely, Sea, Railroads

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• It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• We acknowledge no righteousness but what the obedience and satisfaction of Christ yields us. His blood, not our faith; his satisfaction, not our believing it, is the matter of our justification before God.

  John Flavel

  Believe, Blood, Matter

  John Flavel (1740). “The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ... To which are added, alphabetical tables of the texts of Scripture explained; and indexes of principal matters contained in the whole”, p.276

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