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• The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves. Surrender to a leader is not a means to an end but a fulfillment. Whither they are led is of secondary importance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Self, Land

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter. I know that kind of man It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Hands, Sky

  Song: The Stranger Song, 1967

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• A Christian might drink only ginger ale at the tavern bar, but there he is already on the way to drinking beer and whiskey. The girl who attends a ball but never dances a step, will soon surrender her body to the lustful embrace of every casual male acquaintance as other dancers do.

  John R. Rice

  Girl, Christian, Drinking

  John R. Rice (2000). “The Ruin of a Christian”, p.100, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.

  Ellen Willis

  Self, Anxiety, Despair

  Review of "Terror and Liberalism" by Paul Berman, "Salon", March 25, 2003.

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• The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but Germany also lost both wars.

  John Mearsheimer

  War, Air, Cities

  "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics". Book by John Mearsheimer, 2001.

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• Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Motivational, Work, Views

  Speech delivered at Scottish Church College, Kolkata, December 7, 1935.

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• Surrender is forbidden. Sixth Army will hold their positions to the last man and the last round and by their heroic endurance will make an unforgettable contribution toward the establishment of a defensive front and the salvation of the Western world.

  Adolf Hitler

  Army, Men, Endurance

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• If you hit somebody hard enough, they will give up. You can feel their body go limp and they'll just surrender. So every time I hit somebody, the goal is to knock myself out. I know that if I hit somebody hard enough that I can feel it, it's hurting them 10 times worse.

  Bob Sanders

  Hurt, Giving Up, Goal

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• You think because you face situations not of your making that you exercise no choice? That you are helpless? To the contrary, child. Your whole life has been full of choices. Hiding from a hard truth is a choice. Surrender - even to the inevitable - is a choice. Even in death there is a choice. You may have no control over the time or manner of your death, but you can choose how you face it.

  C. L. Wilson

  Children, Exercise, Thinking

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• Surrender is Beautiful.
  When we surrender
  Our Soul's beauty
  is reflected in Life's Stream.

  Bentinho

  Beautiful, Soul, Streams

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• Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Law, Criminals, Attention

  "U.S. freedoms not to blame for Mexico's drug war" by Wayne LaPierre, www.cnn.com. March 26, 2009.

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• It is not action or effort that we must surrender; it is self-will, and this is terribly difficult. You must do your best constantly, yet never allow yourself to become involved in whether things work out the way you want.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Self, Work Out, Effort

  Eknath Easwaran (1979). “Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II”, p.371, Nilgiri Press

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• Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Ideas, Abandonment, Conversation

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Buddhist, Mean, Views

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender--is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Prayer, Passionate Desire, Expectations

  Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons ...”, p.33

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• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sacrifice, Reality, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.377

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• While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two axioms. One is that there can be no peace without a general surrender of sovereignty: the other is that no country capable of defending its sovereignty ever surrenders it. If one keeps these axioms in mind one can generally see the relevant facts in international affairs through the smoke-screen with which the newspapers surround them.

  George Orwell

  Country, Games, Two

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

  Phillips Brooks

  Men, Self, Giving

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Views, Dictator, Defeated

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• It is not restful, it is not possible to talk wholeheartedly to more than one person at a time. You can't really talk with a person unless you surrender to them, for the moment (all other talk is futile). You can't surrender to more than one person a moment.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Communication, Moments, Conversation

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1972). “Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Past, Never Surrender, Dies

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.556, Hamilton Books

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• One writes not by will but by surrender.

  Erica Jong

  Writing

  Erica Jong (1999). “What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power”, Perennial

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• nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Decay, Assault, Nations

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• To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Sports, Sex, Water

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• When I allow myself to feel all my feelings instead of numbing myself to them, they pass more quickly. I spent my entire life telling everyone I was "OK, damn it." But when you surrender to the [uncomfortable] feelings, there are gifts on the other side: Allowing yourself to feel loneliness forces you to reach out. Letting yourself get angry gives you strength, energy and motivation.

  Ashley Judd

  Motivation, Loneliness, Uncomfortable Feeling

  "Ashley's Secret Life". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. July 9, 2006.

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