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• You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.

  Sophocles

  Regret, Hate, Anger

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• Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

  Saint Augustine

  Bible, Christian, Scripture

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• My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.

  Bill Johnson

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Heart

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• Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

  Hubert Van Zeller

  Character, Grace, Suffering

  Hubert Van Zeller (1973). “Considerations”, Templegate Publishers

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• Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

  C. S. Lewis

  Courage, Honesty, Hypocrite

  In Cyril Connolly 'The Unquiet Grave' (1944) ch. 31

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• The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

  B. C. Forbes

  Satisfaction, Bargaining, Mutual

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• This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

  Barney Frank

  Long, Doe, Cracks

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• Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

  David F. Houston

  Weight, Acres, Succeed

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• Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Success, Men

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• Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Political, Battle, Teeth

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 30

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• Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  Immanuel Kant

  Intuition, Elements, Way

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.61, Read Books Ltd

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• In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.

  Mitt Romney

  Views, Hands, Years

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• Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Stupidity, Firsts

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• Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

  Abdul Kalam

  Numbers, Nuclear, Tests

  "India's A.P.J. Abdul Kalam". Interview with Time, content.time.com. November 30, 1998.

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• The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

  Rumi

  Love, Spring, Autumn

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

  Adam Savage

  Data, Tests, Spirit

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• Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.

  Peter Singer

  Strong, Long, Addiction

  "How to stop yourself breaking that new year's resolution" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2011.

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• Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Long, Soul

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• Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.

  Sylvia Earle

  Oxygen, Sea, Atmosphere

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• When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

  Quintilian

  Hard Work, Defeat, Inevitable

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics

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• We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

  Lech Walesa

  People, Unions, Violence

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• Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.

  Ellen G. White

  Children, Expectations, Favors

  Ellen G. White (1994*). “Spiritual Gifts Vol 3 & 4”, Review and Herald Pub Assoc

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• He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows; and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed that any walk — that anything — could give him so much happiness.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Children, Home

  "A Christmas carol in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas: With original art and narration by Jon Langford".

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• Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mutation, Materialism, Goods

  Bertrand Russell (1985). “Contemplation and Action, 1902-14”, p.69, Psychology Press

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• Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

  Cornel West

  Clever, Self, Gimmicks

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2013

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