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• To what profit is it that we dwell in Jerusalem, if we do not see the King's face? And when He comes forth from His royal chambers, accompanied with blessing, are we to hold ourselves at leisure that we may yield Him worship and offer Him service?

  David McIntyre

  Kings, Blessing, Jerusalem

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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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• Everything yields to diligence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Work, Motivational Work, Diligence

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• One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sadness, Emotional, Suffering

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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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• This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise. Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone; Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd; Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects, what they show to kings.

  George Crabbe

  Wise, Kings, Selfish

  George Crabbe, C. T. (1829). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe, Etc. [With a Portrait and a Prefatory Memoir Signed: C. T.]”, p.29

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• A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 - 1880.

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• Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

  Laozi

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Strong

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• The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Passion, Evil, Vigor

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.76

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• Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence of all transitional forms by ignoring those that have been found, and continuing to taunt us with admittedly frequent examples of absence.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Example, Facts, Evolution

  Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

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• The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in the fossil record. It is gradualism that we must reject, not Darwinism.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Theory Of Evolution, Doe, Records

  Stephen Jay Gould (2002). “The Structure of Evolutionary Theory”, p.990, Harvard University Press

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• Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Relationship, Falling In Love, Jobs

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their enemies without strife. The greatest directors of men are those who yield place to others. This is called the Virtue of not striving, the capacity for directing mankind; this is being the compeer of Heaven. It was the highest goal of the ancients.

  Laozi

  Humility, Men, Goal

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• [Fritz Haber's] greatness lies in his scientific ideas and in the depth of his searching. The thought, the plan, and the process are more important to him than the completion. The creative process gives him more pleasure than the yield, the finished piece. Success is immaterial. "Doing it was wonderful." His work is nearly always uneconomical, with the wastefulness of the rich.

  Richard Willstatter

  Success, Lying, Hard Work

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• One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.

  J. I. Packer

  Bible, Biblical, Secret

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• We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century... During this period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries but necessities - not the salt in our bread but the bread itself.

  Jimmy Carter

  Patriotic, Commitment, Past

  Jimmy Carter's Farewell Address, www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov. January 14, 1981.

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• There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.There are not more than five primary colors, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Color

  Sun Tzu (2017). “The Art Of War - The Oldest Military Treatise in the World”, p.55, Youcanprint

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• The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Events

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission". Book by Winston Churchill, 1930.

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• A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.

  Jeff Cox

  Love, Work, Garden

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• We are free to yield to truth.

  Horace

  Freedom

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• There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Life, Character, Men

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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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• 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love, Running, Morning

  Miguel De Cervantes (1930). “Don Quixote”

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• To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Happiness, Struggle

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