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• Benchmarks, yes, we want the Iraqi government to do the things that will show progress. But to say, American troops are going to leave, no matter what's happening on the ground, is surrender. There is no other word for it.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Government, Progress, Want

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• We have to surrender ourselves completely to the Lord with faith and devotion in Him, serve others to the best of our capacity, and never be a source of sorrow to anybody.

  Sarada Devi

  Sorrow, Lord, Devotion

  "The Holy Mother's Reminiscences". "Vedanta Kesari" Magazine,

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• When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled...It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase.

  Marina Warner

  Media, Black, Phases

  Marina Warner (2013). “Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism”, p.248, OUP Oxford

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• You must surrender before you can guide.

  Robert Jordan

  Guides

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.311, Macmillan

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• When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom; we have surrendered its only real meaning, and we will not be free again until we get it back.

  Alan Keyes

  Real, Government, Essence

  Alan Keyes' Speech at a Student-Organized Rally for the Ten Commandments in Hillsdale, Michigan, www.keyesarchives.com. February 7, 2004.

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• If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.

  L. Neil Smith

  Moving, Expression, Victory

  "Some New Tactical Reflections". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 15, 1998.

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• The traditional American husband and father had the responsibilities-and the privileges-of playing the role of primary provider. Sharing that role is not easy. To yield exclusive access to the role is to surrender some of the potential for fulfilling the hero fantasy-a fantasy that appeals to us all. The loss is far from trivial.

  Faye J Crosby

  Husband, Father, Hero

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• The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

  Charles Stross

  Ideas, Yellow, People

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.164, Penguin

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• If you surrender yourself, and do not rush, but meditate on the Word of God, you will find prayer forming in your heart. It is a prayer inspired by the Holy Spirit, a prayer that God will be pleased to hear.

  John R. Rice

  God, Religious, Prayer

  John R. Rice (2000). “Prayer: Asking and Receiving”, p.262, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Attitude, Struggle, Moving

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• Most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily.

  Victor Davis Hanson

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• Rather than Surrender to Bureaucracy, take it upon yourself to break it

  Scott Belsky

  Break, Bureaucracy

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• If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Determination, Men

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• There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or he can deliberately accept his servitude. All three forms flourish in the modern world. Men are born and forced into slavery in Russia and her satellites states. Men in the free world invite slavery when they ask the government to provide complete security, when they surrender their freedom to the "Welfare State."

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Men, Russia

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• Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Basketball, Team

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• Surrender goes against our very nature to be independent. Surrender indicates we willingly choose to rely on others. We must rewire our thinking to recognize that needing another person (and being the person someone else needs) is not a weakness; it only strengthens us.

  Anne Marie Miller

  Independent, Thinking, Weakness

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• My tweeting is cool and calm unless I am riled up about something and then I just surrender to the fury of my fingers.

  Roxane Gay

  Calm, Fingers, Fury

  "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 14, 2014.

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• I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.

  James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

  Privacy, Accepting, Certain

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• I will surrender to the moment today.

  Karan Casey

  Today, Moments

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• When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands.

  Jodhi May

  Jobs, Hands

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• The spineless pussy willows in Ottawa are actually helping to condition the Canadian public to accept the surrender of our country, which American forces were unable to accomplish in 1776 and 1812.

  Paul Hellyer

  Country, Pussy, Ottawa

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• There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Determination, Mean, Responsibility

  "Human Action". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1949.

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• Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  War, Fighting, Men

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• It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.

  George W. S. Trow

  Class, Choices, Coherence

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• The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to be battered by them. It gives you access to a deep knowledge of how you would respond to things you would never, thank goodness, have been required to experience.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Book, Giving, Feelings

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