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• Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do.

  Jay Lake

  Sex, Writing, Guitar

  Interview with Patrick Wolohan, www.sfsignal.com. August 24, 2009.

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• Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Political, Liberty

  "All the Trouble in the World". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1994.

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• Marriage is meant to be more about your surrender than about your satisfaction.

  Scott Means

  Love, Family, Marriage

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• In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.

  Mark Epstein

  Self, Land, Feelings

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• A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

  Thomas Browne

  Truth, Men, Cities

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 6

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• I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Clouds, Rocks, Order

  "Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey, 1790-1840". Book by Andreas Schönle, p. 108, 2000.

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• Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Effort, Toil, Sanctification

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• Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

  Moritz Gudemann

  Men, Rights, Peer Pressure

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• The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

  John C. Calhoun

  Life, Inferiority, Sinking

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• When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, World, Duality

  "Morning share: Kim Eng and Eckhart Tolle: Relationships – True Love and the Transcendence of Duality". Interview with Kim Eng, www.patheos.com. January 25, 2013.

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• The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.

  William D. Leahy

  Fashion, Children, War

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• We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like someone falling off a boat, struggling to stay above the water only makes things worse. We must accept we are there and settle enough so we can be carried by the deep. The willingness to do this is the genesis of faith, the giving over to currents larger than us. Even fallen leaves float in lakes, demonstrating how surrender can hold us up.

  Mark Nepo

  Hurt, Pain, Struggle

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.87, Conari Press

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• Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

  Harold Nicolson

  Team, Personality, Obedience

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• The will is not merely assertive, aggressive, and controlling. There is the accepting will, yielding will, the dedicated will. You might say that there is a feminine polarity to the will – the willing surrender, the joyful acceptance of the other functions of the personality.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Acceptance, Personality, Might

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• Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.

  Friedrich Paulus

  Army, Order, Troops

  "The World Changers" by Bruce Bliven, (p. 171), 1965.

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• A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Fighting, America, People

  T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.480, Open Road Media

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• It is only when a woman surrenders her life to her husband, reveres and worships him, and is willing to serve him, that she becomes really beautiful to him. She becomes a priceless jewel, the glory of femininity, his queen!

  Marabel Morgan

  Beautiful, Queens, Husband

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• The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal to his belief, he has but a coward's faithfulness to his prejudices. If he were a lover of truth, he would be willing at any moment to surrender his belief for a higher, better, and truer faith.

  William George Jordan

  Religious, Men, Coward

  William George Jordan (1903). “Great truths”

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• There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

  Margot Asquith

  Should, Intellect, Knows

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into Rue Mimosas, looking for the house of Rene Magritte. It was August, 1965. I was 33 years old and about to meet the man whose profound and witty surrealist paintings had contradicted my assumptions about photography.

  Duane Michals

  Photography, Witty, Memories

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• Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

  Dee Hock

  Secret, Yardsticks, Never Surrender

  Dee Hock (2005). “One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization”, p.32, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow, and deference in the face of something greater and more powerful... Only such a being-unto-death can guarantee the precondition that the Da-sein be able to free itself from its absorption in, its submission and surrender of itself to the things and relationships of everyday living and to return to itself.

  Medard Boss

  Powerful, Feelings, Everyday

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• Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Love You, Self

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• You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

  Robert Breault

  Respect, Morning, Integrity

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• Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Dogma, Christianity

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