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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Fire, Giving, Sparks

  Peter Milward, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Raymond V. Schoder (1975). “Landscape and inscape: vision and inspiration in Hopkins's poetry”, Elektrohas

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• Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

  Paul Brunton

  Mirrors, Ego, Secret

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth”

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• Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

  Aldo Leopold

  Doe, Pay, Action

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.346, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. Because of the impression that the future is blocked up, that *they* might do all right but not their children. Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible only somewhere else.

  Yann Martel

  Children, Moving, Years

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.119, Canongate Books

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• Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Memories, Pride, Done

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• ...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those moments we are giving up our citizenship.

  Naomi Wolf

  Giving Up, Rights, Hands

  Naomi Wolf (2008). “Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.

  Leonard Cohen

  Music, Rivers, Soul

  Song: Take This Waltz, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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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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• …being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief.

  Anne Rice

  Atheist, Thinking, Ideas

  Anne Rice (2013). “Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession”, p.129, Random House

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• Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites.

  Michael Pollan

  Turkeys, America, Half

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• To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

  Jane Austen

  Understanding, Merit, Compliment

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Delight, Sun

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.

  Gunter Grass

  Nice, Color, Play

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• The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.

  Holly Black

  Powerful, Hate, Mouths

  Holly Black (2008). “Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• That which yields is not always weak.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Weak, Kushiel's Dart, Flexibility

  Jacqueline Carey (2007). “Kushiel's Avatar”, p.467, Macmillan

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• no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dog, Time, Loss

  Abraham Lincoln (1888). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Full Text of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Together with the Essay on Lincoln”

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• I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.

  Ariana Franklin

  Bed, Admiration

  Ariana Franklin (2008). “The Serpent's Tale”, p.406, Penguin

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