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• But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

  Adolf Hitler

  Persistence, Mind, Important

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Optimistic, Dark, Men

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• Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Mother, Journey

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• Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

  Robert Frost

  Love, Heart, Acceptance

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.155, Harvard University Press

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• Because of Jesus Christ the world has changed, the divine Atonement has been made, the price of sin has been paid, and the fearful spectacle of death yields to the light of truth and the assurance of resurrection. Though the years roll by, His birth, His ministry, His legacy continue to guide the destiny of all who follow Him as He so invitingly urged.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Destiny, Light

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• Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love You, Men, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

  Confucius

  Art, Truth, Anger

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• I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.

  Edward Kennedy

  Gun, Politics, Our Society

  Senate debate with Mitt Romney, 1994.

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• All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God has already established the laws. It is four us to discover them, and to learn the facts by which we can obey them.

  Wheeler McMillen

  Law, Progress, Four

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• A strong plan of action will yield you quantum results and will ensure that you don’t fall into the familiar patterns of your past.

  Debbie Ford

  Strong, Fall, Past

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• The person that goes regularly and intelligently to the Lord's Table finds it increasingly hard to yield to sin and conform to the world.

  J. C. Ryle

  World, Tables, Sin

  J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com

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• When faith lays hold, impossibilities must yield.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Lays, Impossibility

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Divine Nature: Abiding in Power Every Day of the Year”, p.215, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

  Bill Gates

  Hunger And Poverty, Increase, Enormous

  "5 Questions for Bill Gates: The Full Interview" by Dana Goldstein, www.thedailybeast.com. January 24, 2010.

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• Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Government, Support

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press

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• Transitions are a part of life, allowing for perpetual renewal. When you experience the end of one chapter, allow yourself to feel the emotions of loss and rebirth. A bud gives way to a new flower, which surrenders to the fruit, which gives rise to a seed, which yields a new sprout. Even as you ride the roller coaster, embrace the centered internal reference of the ever-present witness.

  David Simon

  Flower, Loss, Giving

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• Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Self, Play, Limits

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• A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable to change violently as the result of a sudden fluctuation of opinion due to factors which do not really make much difference to the prospective yield; since there will be no strong roots of conviction to hold it steady.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Strong, Roots, Differences

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.138, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves.

  Carl Safina

  Reality, Inquiry, Honest

  Carl Safina (2010). “Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas”, p.440, Macmillan

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• For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results.

  David Grubbs

  Different, Records, Sides

  Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

  Catherine Marshall

  Prayer, Effort, Our Prayers

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• Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Love, Life, Mountain Ranges

  "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" l. 1 (ca. 1589)

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• Obviously, our business leaders yield enormous influence on our political leaders, and they have a duty to use that influence for the greater good. But beyond that, the private sector depends on having healthy, educated and productive workers.

  Shakira

  Leader, Political, Healthy

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got...

  David Miliband

  Hate, Live Life, Two

  "David Miliband: politics for the pinched generation". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2012.

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• Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

  Plutarch

  Perseverance, Taken, Persistence

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.761, 谷月社

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• That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

  Albert Pike

  Wisdom, Heart, Ignorance

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