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• That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reading, Inspired, Mystery

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well.

  Ernest Sosa

  Doe, Reliability, Competence

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My other work, teaching, also is satisfying because I can be with people but in controlled circumstances, which aren't as likely to yield the pain of dealing with family.

  Phillip Lopate

  Pain, Teaching, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If you look at the sponsorship yields, Formula One - because it happens every year - generates more sponsorship money for a four-year cycle than anybody else. So it is very powerful.

  Martin Sorrell

  Powerful, Years, Looks

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to reassure us that we do not have to be afraid of the darkness because darkness will always yield to light. As theologian David Griffin puts in, God is all-powerful, His power enables people to deal with events beyond their control and He gives us the strength to do those things because He is with us.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Powerful, Light, People

  Harold S. Kushner (2006). “Overcoming Life's Disappointments”, p.15, Anchor

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• Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries. A foreign investor picks up a yield spread in Treasurys versus their own sovereigns, plus the fact that if the dollar is going to continue rallying - and I think it will because it's a safe haven - then they get a currency translation gain as well.

  Gary Shilling

  Country, Safe Haven, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• In order to better charge Moscow with human rights violations, the United States had to bend with regard to the more excessive aspects of Jim Crow. It had to yield to the insistent cries on the ground here in this country.

  Gerald Horne

  Country, Rights, Order

  Source: politicalaffairs.net

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• When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1/20th of one percent, that means the whole country is basically at the point virtually, or a lot of the country is at the point of putting the money under the mattress.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Mean, Bills

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• You have hedge funds and people like that buying these assets to yield 15 or 20 percent, I mean, that's the buyer for these people that are trying to unload them.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, People, Trying

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• It's a mistake to suppose that capacities must evolve gradually. There are many known examples of sharp changes - slight genetic modification that yields substantial phenotypic effects, and much else.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mistake, Example, Capacity

  Source: libcom.org

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• The reason fiber helps us control our weight is that it fills the belly yet yields few calories since fiber is, for the most part, not something that we can digest.

  Kathy Freston

  Weight, Fiber, Helping

  "An Apple a Day Melts the Pounds Away!" by Kathy Freston, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Any time we open ourselves up to fear, we fall prey to his deceptions and intimidations. Yet, if we submit our hearts to God and stand in faith, we can resist those first fearful thoughts. As we yield to God we can master our reactions to fear and the enemy will soon flee.

  Francis Frangipane

  Fall, Heart, Deception

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• Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic.

  Stephen Mansfield

  Done, Sporadic, Consistently

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• Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

  James Keller

  Hopeful, Doe, Cherish

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• The interaction between math and physics is a two-way process, with each of the two subjects drawing from and inspiring the other. At different times, one of them may take the lead in developing a particular idea, only to yield to the other subject as focus shifts. But altogether, the two interact in a virtuous circle of mutual influence.

  Edward Frenkel

  Math, Circles, Ideas

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• Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

  Robert Frost

  Love, Heart, Acceptance

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.155, Harvard University Press

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• But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Passion, Joy

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.29, Prestwick House Inc

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• Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

  Desmond Tutu

  Moments, Lifetime

  Desmond Tutu, Mpho Tutu (2010). “Made For Goodness: And why this makes all the difference”, p.72, Random House

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• To be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can make us angry. It is our choice. If we desire to have a proper spirit with us at all times, we must choose to refrain from becoming angry. I testify that such is possible.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Anger, Choices, Desire

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• Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

  Horace

  Sloth, Laziness, Witch

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.

  John Marshall

  Return, Compromise, Resolution

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• You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

  Rumi

  Sublime, Needs, Stealing

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• When you're in love with God, you're not afraid to yield your life to Him.

  Heidi Baker

  Compassion, God Love, Not Afraid

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• Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.

  Aldo Leopold

  Character, Wilderness, Remnants

  Aldo Leopold, David Earl Brown, Neil B. Carmony (1995). “Aldo Leopold's Southwest”, p.161, UNM Press

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• Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Reality, Thinking

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.18, Open Road Media

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