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• Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Natural Instinct, Conformity

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.85, Book Tree

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• You may exist in this world--but I exist too and I will not yield

  Matthew Quick

  World, May, This World

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• Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to respect but never yield to. Pain was simply a message, telling him which limbs he could still use to slaughter his enemies, how far he could still run, and what his chances were in the next battle.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Running, Pain, Enemy

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• Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun, For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Blessed, Moon

  William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.162

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• DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Father, Titles

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.280, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent

  Nelson Mandela

  Animal, Political, Opponents

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• One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another yields no retreating inch, and the wind that would destroy him lifts him as readily to the heights. We are not measured by the trials we meet, only by those we overcome.

  David O. McKay

  Time, Fall, Adversity

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• Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and are certainly harder to bear. If I must deceive myself, I should prefer to stay on the side of confidence, for I shall lose no more there and shall suffer less.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mistake, Suffering, Sides

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Discovery, Tree, Mind

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• January. It was all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray capsule. January was moments, and January was a year. January rained the moments down, and froze them in her memory: [...]Every human action seemed to yield a magic. January was a two-faced month, jangling like jester's bells, crackling like snow crust, pure as any beginning, grim as an old man, mysteriously familiar yet unknown, like a word one can almost but not quite define.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Memories, Men, Two

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• Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Happiness, Islands, Sun

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.175, Scholastic UK

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• He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully

  Baruch Spinoza

  Revenge, Mean, Fighting

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• Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

  Thomas Mann

  Kind Thoughts, Reason, Only Love

  Thomas Mann (1995). “The magic mountain: a novel”, Random House, Inc.

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• To my surprise, Joscelin rose. ‘Phedre-’ He began, then halted. Sitting below him, I watched him smile to himself, quiet and private. ‘Phedre yields with a willow’s grace,’ he said softly. ‘And endures with the strength of mountains. Without her, life would be calm; and yet lack all meaning.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Rose, Grace, Mountain

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• Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.

  Rick Riordan

  Hard Work, Love Is, Games

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• Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
  Must yield at length to Time.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Time, Men, Length

  Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”

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• The actor's physical type is the main consideration. It isn't and shouldn't be. Does the actor "look the part"? It is the simplest question to deal with. The director deludes himself who yields to the temptation to believe that an affirmative answer settles the matter. An actor's looks will impress an audience initially but after his first five minutes on stage it becomes aware of what he or she communicates (or fails to communicate) through acting!

  Harold Clurman

  Believe, Temptation, Acting

  "On Directing".

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• It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

  Steve Jobs

  Education, Art, Technology

  "Without Jobs as CEO, Who Speaks for the Arts at Apple?" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. August 29, 2011.

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• At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Freedom, Assessment, Taxation

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• An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Views, History, Choices

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1964). “Vistas of history”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

  Leopold von Ranke

  Past, History, Judging

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• Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Irritation, Saving

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.376, Penguin

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• The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

  Matthew Arnold

  Heart, Brave, Intelligence

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems”, p.42

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• I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the Judo expert does not oppose such movements at all. No, he yields to them. But he does much more than yield to them. He aids them with a wicked sleight that causes the assailant to put out his own shoulder, to fracture his own arm, or in a desparate case, even to break his own neck or back.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Wicked, Experts, Doe

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• If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Real, Work, Idlers

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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