Yield Quotes - Page 12

• How do you measure whether or not a strategy of economic growth that is articulated by a very smart, capable economist actually yields growth? You can't. But you can influence.

  George W. Bush

  Smart, Growth, Influence

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.

  Sylvia Earle

  Oxygen, Sea, Atmosphere

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• The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

  B. C. Forbes

  Satisfaction, Bargaining, Mutual

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• This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

  Barney Frank

  Long, Doe, Cracks

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• It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.

  Ralph Merkle

  Looks, Acres, Temperature

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 1 - July 31, 2000.

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• Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries. A foreign investor picks up a yield spread in Treasurys versus their own sovereigns, plus the fact that if the dollar is going to continue rallying - and I think it will because it's a safe haven - then they get a currency translation gain as well.

  Gary Shilling

  Country, Safe Haven, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Energy, Generations

  "Elon Musk on rockets, sports cars, and solar power". Interview with Michael Kanellos, www.cnet.com. February 15, 2008.

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• Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Long, Soul

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• Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Success, Men

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• We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

  Lech Walesa

  People, Unions, Violence

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• Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

  Cornel West

  Clever, Self, Gimmicks

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2013

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• Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.

  Ellen G. White

  Children, Expectations, Favors

  Ellen G. White (1994*). “Spiritual Gifts Vol 3 & 4”, Review and Herald Pub Assoc

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• Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

  Abdul Kalam

  Numbers, Nuclear, Tests

  "India's A.P.J. Abdul Kalam". Interview with Time, content.time.com. November 30, 1998.

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• Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Stupidity, Firsts

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• Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strong, Taken, Heart

  "Ulysses" l. 65 (1842)

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• An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded me to man before, and that without wound or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.

  Howard Pyle

  Men, Body, Ale

  "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood".

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• But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Reason, Vow

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• Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.

  Peter Singer

  Strong, Long, Addiction

  "How to stop yourself breaking that new year's resolution" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2011.

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• In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

  Adam Savage

  Data, Tests, Spirit

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• We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Government, People, Guarantees

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.76, Best Books on

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• Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

  Pope Paul VI

  Change, Men, Technology

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• If you look at the sponsorship yields, Formula One - because it happens every year - generates more sponsorship money for a four-year cycle than anybody else. So it is very powerful.

  Martin Sorrell

  Powerful, Years, Looks

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• You have hedge funds and people like that buying these assets to yield 15 or 20 percent, I mean, that's the buyer for these people that are trying to unload them.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, People, Trying

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• My other work, teaching, also is satisfying because I can be with people but in controlled circumstances, which aren't as likely to yield the pain of dealing with family.

  Phillip Lopate

  Pain, Teaching, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Dark, Night, Solitude

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