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• Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield;
  Learn from the beasts the physic of the field;
  The arts of building from the bee receive;
  Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Art, Bird

  Alexander Pope (1763). “An essay on man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and improved by the author. Together with his MS. additions and variations as in the last edition of his works. With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.70

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• At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, the difficulties outweigh the favorable conditions and so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction and the favorable conditions constitute the secondary aspect. But through their efforts the revolutionaries can overcome the difficulties step by step and open up a favorable new situation, thus a difficult situation yields place to a favorable one.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Difficult Situations, Effort

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• The Bible is teh means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility and service. Secured by the knowledge that in Christ, our origin... and destination is God, we will yield the fruit of service to God. This is the "so what" of our Bible reading. Does it shape our spirits in love and humility? Does it lead us more fully into life with God? (Life with God, p. 34-35)

  Richard J. Foster

  Jesus, Reading, Mean

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• Action that is inspired from aligned thought is joyful action. Action that is offered from a place of contridicted thought is hard work that is not satisfying and does not yield good results. When you really feel like jumping into action, that is a clear sign that your vibration is pure and you are not offering contridicting thoughts to your own desire. When you are having a hard time making yourself do something, or when the action you offer does not produce the results you are seeking, it is always because you are offering thoughts in opposition to your desire.

  Esther Hicks

  Hard Work, Hard Times, Offering

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• For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Madness, Disorder, Disgusting

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• When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences of civilization, and, though the first operations of the settler are favorable to the increase of many species, the great extension of rural and of mechanical industry is, in a variety of ways, destructive even to tribes not directly warred upon by man.

  George Perkins Marsh

  Science, Men, Law

  George Perkins Marsh (2001). “So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh”, University Press of New England

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• We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.

  May Sarton

  Grief, Writing, Thinking

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• There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

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• The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Keys, Perspective

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• A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principles we already understand. Some of my colleagues think a million, or perhaps a billion, fragmentary insults will eventually yield wisdom that surpasses that of any well-thought-out essay, so long as sophisticated secret statistical algorithms recombine the fragments. I disagree. A trope from the early days of computer science comes to mind: garbage in, garbage out.

  Jaron Lanier

  Thinking, Circles, Ideas

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.49, Vintage

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• The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.

  Henry Ford

  Depressing, Evil, Confusion

  Henry Ford (1949). “The International Jew: the World's Foremost Problem”, p.243, Library of Alexandria

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• Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Rooms, Strange

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage

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• My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

  Khalil Gibran

  Giving Up, Acceptance, Blow

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• The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

  Peter Straub

  Lying, Blue, Rose

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• Men will be held accountable for the things which they have and not for the things they have not. ... All the light and intelligence communicated to them from their beneficent creator, whether it is much or little, by the same they in justice will be judged, and ... they are required to yield obedience and improve upon that and that only which is given, for man is not to live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Agency, Light

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• Don't yield to Satan's lie that you don't have time to study the scriptures. Choose to take time to study them. Feasting on the word of God each day is more important than sleep, school, work, television shows, video games, or social media. You may need to reorganize your priorities to provide time for the study of the word of God. If so, do it!

  Richard G. Scott

  Bible, God, Time

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• The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Real, Class, Fancy

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• The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

  Bill McKibben

  Law, Divergent, Physics

  "Natural Capitalism" by Paul Hawken, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields a whole new wave, and in fact that is all I really know. Riding these waves means joining the cosmic dance that, as Dante says, 'moves the sun and the other stars.'

  Gabrielle Roth

  Stars, Moving, Mean

  Gabrielle Roth (2011). “Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement”, p.207, New World Library

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• Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

  David Guterson

  World, Complexes

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• The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.

  David F. Houston

  Land, Corn, Grass

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• God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hands, Weakness, Doe

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• Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  World, Sometimes, Beats

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques”, p.116

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• Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

  Winston Churchill

  Being Strong, Veterans Day, Stay Strong

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press

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• Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Fall, Mind, Cost

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