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• Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Philosophy, Age, Tasks

  "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

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• Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

  Elizabeth Ferrars

  Stubborn, Manipulation, Facts

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• there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth.

  Eleanor Dark

  Creative, Mind, Body

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• There are prayers that help us last through the day, or endure the night. There are prayers of friends and strangers, that give us strength for the journey. And there are prayers that yield our will to a will greater than our own.

  George W. Bush

  Prayer, Humor, Night

  Remarks at the National Day of Prayer & Remembrance Service, delivered 14 September 2001, Episcopal National Cathedral

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• I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Light, Focus

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• When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.

  Peter Drucker

  Motivational, Increase, Resources

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• Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.

  Julian Barnes

  Fall, Boys, Russia

  "Talking It Over". Book by Julian Barnes, books.google.ru. February 23, 2010.

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• Darren Hardy proves with The Compound Effect that common sense-when applied-yields amazingly uncommon results. Follow these simple steps and become who you were meant to be!

  Denis Waitley

  Simple, Common Sense, Were Meant To Be

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• No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?

  Sophocles

  Fighter, Killing, Glory

  Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.86, Penguin

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• Do not yield to Satan's enticements; rather, stand firm for truth. The unsatisfied yearnings of the soul will not be met by a never-ending quest for joy amidst the thrills of sensation and vice. Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Hate, Giving, Joy

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• It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Littles, Too Much

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.1

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• The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Stupid, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.218, Modern Library

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• A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.

  Melissa Pritchard

  Real, Heart, Romance

  "Wickedly Savage Passions". Interview with Melissa Mia Hall, www.publishersweekly.com. February 23, 2004.

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• Affliction is a mother,
  Whose painful throes yield many sons,
  Each fairer than the other.

  Henry Vaughan

  Mother, Son, Sorrow

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis LYTE (1847). “Silex scintillans, 1650. A ... facsimile”, p.31

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• The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them.

  Harriet Martineau

  Ignorance, Government, People

  Harriet Martineau (1834). “Illustrations of taxation”, p.117

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• The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Truth, Mean, Doubt

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• Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

  Jane Porter

  Love, Compulsion, All Things

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Perspective, Serenity, Achievement

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• Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.

  John Henry Holland

  Innovation, Elements, Levels

  John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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• Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.

  Owen Feltham

  Hope, Men, Enemy

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• One of the great things about a free market is that it's inherently and indefatigably Darwinistic. Left to its own devices, a free market will eventually weed out the stupid from both 'ends' of the food chain otherwise described as supply and demand. As money is liberated from the hands of the stupid, those who would sell products or services to the stupid will eventually lose their share of the marketplace. Devoid of any 'benevolent' interference from government, the process is gloriously relentless, and cannot help but yield a successively smarter class of participants.

  Edward Britton

  Weed, Stupid, Government

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• The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.

  George Lillo

  Heart, Purpose, May

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• To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before!

  Edith M. Thomas

  Doubt

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• Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.

  Elsa Barker

  Meditation, Soul, Secret

  Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• Automating a mess yields an automated mess.

  Michael Martin Hammer

  Money, Mess

  "Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution" by Michael Hammer, James A. Champy, HarperCollins, (p. 7), 1993.

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