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• There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.

  Yvette Clarke

  Community, Doubt, Doe

  "Stop-and-Frisk Targets Minorities — Creates Culture of Fear in New York" by Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2012.

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• The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Flower, Suffering, Passing Away

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2017). “The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.105, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Mistress, Favors, Fortune

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• The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

  June Jordan

  Needs, Genius, Given

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• There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

  William Hazlitt

  Confidence, Spirit, Captivating

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• No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Natural, Dare

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• We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Fate, Acceptance, Conquer

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.170

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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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• Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind--
  More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind.

  George Crabbe

  Mind, Kind, Fortitude

  George Crabbe (1847). “The Tales and Miscellaneous Poems”, p.272

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• No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics. History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.

  Tim Cook

  Passion, Thinking, Risk

  "Tim Cook channels Martin Luther King Jr. in speech to George Washington University graduates". www.businessinsider.com. May 17, 2015.

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• You can have a strong economy or you can help the environment, but you can't do both at the same time. That's ridiculous. In fact, as a sustainable vision for a healthy economy has to involve changing our energy policy and changing with respect to the natural world. Because we're hitting nature's thresholds, we're hitting nature's limits with respect to water and crop yields and energy use and fossil fuels heating the atmosphere at the same time we're past global peak and running out of that.

  James Cameron

  Running, Strong, Past

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• What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade.
  The years thunder by.

  Sterling Hayden

  Lying, Years, Pyramids

  "Wanderer". Book by Sterling Hayden, 1963.

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• Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Spinning, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Self, Use

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.230, Rajpal & Sons

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• Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Democracy, Obedience

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.25, Rajpal & Sons

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• If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Oil, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi (1963). “Collected Works”

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• Combining quantum entanglement with wormholes yields mind boggling results about black holes. But I don't trust them until we have a theory of everything which can combine quantum effects with general relativity. i.e. we need to have a full blown string theory resolve this sticky question.

  Michio Kaku

  Mind, Black, Needs

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are all that matters and yet conflicts over land, specially one like on the India-China border, that yields nothing, continue. This is a burden of ancient history that we continue to carry. If tomorrow there is settlement on planet Mars, we will begin to worry if others are interested.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Land, Worry

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• Any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves.

  Carl Safina

  Reality, Inquiry, Honest

  Carl Safina (2010). “Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas”, p.440, Macmillan

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• For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results.

  David Grubbs

  Different, Records, Sides

  Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

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