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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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• A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield.

  David O. McKay

  Character, Power, Men

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• Obviously, our business leaders yield enormous influence on our political leaders, and they have a duty to use that influence for the greater good. But beyond that, the private sector depends on having healthy, educated and productive workers.

  Shakira

  Leader, Political, Healthy

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, Artist, Cities

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• Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

  Agnes Repplier

  Years, Stronger, Vices

  Agnes Repplier (1936). “In Pursuit of Laughter ...”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

  John Ruskin

  Men, World, Slavery

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.225, Courier Corporation

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• I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Travel, Garden, Cities

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• Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?

  Abraham Cowley

  Bible, Aeneas, Land

  Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1710). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed, and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies ; with The Cutter of Coleman-street”

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• Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone,
  And still a new to-morrow does come on.
  We by to-morrow draw out all our store,
  Till the exhausted well can yield no more.

  Abraham Cowley

  Yesterday, Doe, Gone

  Abraham Cowley (1809). “The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse”, p.225

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