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• If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.

  Laozi

  Country, Taoism, Conquer

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• A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.

  Laozi

  Country, People, Taoism

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• The Christian soldier must avoid two evils - he must not faint or yield in the time of fight, and after a victory he must not wax insolent and secure. When he has overcome, he is so to behave himself as though he were presently again to be assaulted. For Satan’s temptations like the waves of the sea, do follow one in the neck of the other

  George Downame

  Christian, Fighting, Two

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• The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes: everyone knew it but preferred to ignore it. Paleontologists, faced with a recalcitrant record obstinately refusing to yield Darwin's predicted pattern, simply looked the other way.

  Niles Eldredge

  Clothes, Long, Quality

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• None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look out for the best society, that which yields a bracing and wholesome influence. We all know the person for whose company we are the better, though the talk is only about fishing or embroidery.

  Charlotte Mason

  Book, Men, Fishing

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.1039, Simon and Schuster

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• A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always more honorable. But it may be advantageous to take the offensive, instead of awaiting the attack on the frontiers.

  Antoine-Henri Jomini

  War, May, Territory

  Antoine-Henri Jomini (2012). “The Art of War”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that I would loan or yield my agency to him-without compulsion or pressure, without any duress, as a single individual alone, by myself, no counterfeiting, nothing expected other than the privilege. In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one's agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, "I will do as you direct," is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Life, Commitment, Agency

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• Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Angel, Men, Weakness

  Joseph Glanvill, Anthony Horneck, Henry More (1966). “Saducismus Triumphatus: Or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions [!] (1689)”

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• For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Joy, Woe

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.413, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Passion, Men, Law

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• Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly sliding down the path to failure. If a straight, honorable path has been chosen, the gaining of the summit yields lasting satisfaction. The morass of failure, if through laziness, indifference or other avoidable fault, yields nothing but ignominy and sorrow for self and family and friends.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Climbing, Self

  "Keys to Success".

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• The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

  F. H. Bradley

  Struggle, Blow, Temptation

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 75, 1930.

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• The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.

  Horace Mann

  Fall, Law, Rivers

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.184

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• Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Quotations, Falsehood

  "The Ways of Paradox and other Essays (The Ways of Paradox)". Book by Willard Van Orman Quine, 1966.

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• The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.

  Andrew Mellon

  Government, People, Pressure

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• A shady business never yields a sunny life.

  B. C. Forbes

  Sunny Weather, Sunny Afternoon, Sunny Day

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• Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

  B. C. Forbes

  Business, Satisfaction, Ends

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• You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

  Adrian Rogers

  Attitude, Exercise, Worry

  Adrian Rogers (2002). “The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld”, p.7, B&H Publishing Group

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• You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

  Anthony Hope

  Temptation, Absurd, Wells

  'The Dolly Dialogues' (1894) no. 14

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• The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.

  Neil Young

  Strong, Artist, Training

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• Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

  George Stigler

  Chicago, Economic, Theory

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• The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Soul, Soil, Upside Down

  Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• For every mistake that you learn from you will save thousands of similar mistakes in the future, so if you treat mistakes as learning opportunities that yield rapid improvements you should be excited by them. But if you treat them as bad things, you will make yourself and others miserable, and you won't grow.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Mistake, Opportunity

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• Now to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life, I do this under protest and impelled by said force yield my authority until such time as the Government of the United States shall, upon facts being presented to it, undo the action of its representatives and reinstate me in the authority which I claim as the Constitutional Sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.

  Liliʻuokalani

  Loss, Islands, Government

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• There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, "I am willing that my business should prosper, or that my farm should yield plentifully, but I'll not stir a peg." But he is no more foolish than the man who says, "I am willing that God should bless me abundantly, but I shall not do anything toward that end myself." We must consistently rely upon the help of the Lord, but we will not make any progress or meet with any success unless we put forth an earnest effort.

  Charles W. Nibley

  Success, Business, Men

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