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• Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Science, Doe, Might

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• One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof expression, new inventions, new discoveries, and new solutions....It's exactly what children's play seems to be about and explains why so many people have come to think that children's play is so important a part of childhood--and beyond.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Thinking, Discovery

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• The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.

  Daniel Bernoulli

  Money, Determination, Men

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• On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should let everybody know in the most articulate and thoughtful and civil way you can (you don't go out and pick fights with people) that in certain matters that you define as matters of principle you will not budge, you cannot yield, you will not compromise. If you don't have the votes or the winning argument, then you stand to be defeated and rolled over, and you'll just have to come back another day.

  Jesse Helms

  Fighting, Thoughtful, Winning

  Jesse Helms (2005). “Here's where I Stand: A Memoir”, p.64, Jesse Helms Center

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• The earth yields up her stores, of every ill
  The instigators; iron, foe to man,
  And gold, than iron deadlier.

  Ovid

  Money, Men, Iron

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• A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Wise, True Friend

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.114, Penguin

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• It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Army

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.147, Princeton University Press

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• The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Roots, Air, Tree

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Рипол Классик

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• Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper.

  Robert E. Lee

  Reading, Mean, Army

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• I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines... the comfort and the measurements of its environment... the human measure is still the strongest factor. But coming back to the chair, there are certain motions we go through - we like to lean back, like to toss things - and if the chair's adaptable it responds and it's almost like wearing a comfortable coat; you really don't know you have it on.

  Harry Bertoia

  Moving, Appreciate, Weight

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• What is it like being single? I like it! I like starting each day with a sense of possibility. And I'm optimistic, because everyday I get a little more desperate. And desperate situations yield the quickest results.

  Michael Scott

  Being Single, Optimistic, Desperate Situations

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• Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Togas, Arms, Praise

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

  Dan Buettner

  Beautiful, Garden, Hands

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• I'm praying for healing for our nation. For retaliation that yields constructive results. Peaceful protests. We need each other.

  Tituss Burgess

  Healing, Peaceful, Needs

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2015

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• I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again

  Emily Dickinson

  Hands, Bird, Atheism

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.421, Harvard University Press

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• However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when [general relativity], too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Simplicity, Forever

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• Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Strong, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Heart, Self, Differences

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• People tend to be clueless about prices. Contrary to economic theory, we don't really decide between A and B by consulting our invisible price tags and purchasing the one that yields the higher utility, he says. We make do with guesstimates and a vague recollection of what things are “supposed to cost.”

  William Poundstone

  Clueless, Price Tag, People

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• The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the temptation, yield to it almost unconsciously and become the tools of toadies and flatterers. "Authorities," "disciples," and "schools" are the curse of science and do more to interfere with the work of the scientific spirit than all its enemies.

  Thomas Huxley

  School, Men, Temptation

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1967). “The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings”

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• Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.

  Francois Fenelon

  Use, Forget, Trouble

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• The Universe is not discriminating about the rightness or the wrongness of your request. It is here to accommodate all requests. All you have to do is be a Vibrational Match to your request, and the Universe will yield it to you.

  Esther Hicks

  Abundance, Request, Accommodate

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• Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.

  S. N. Goenka

  Two, Matter, Firsts

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• A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Results, Plans, Wells

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• Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests.

  Billy Graham

  Pain, Character, Hands

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jul 24, 2015

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