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• Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Boss, Attention, Energy

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Your teaching must have the integrity of serious, sound words to which no one can take exception. If it does, no opponent will be able to find anything bad to say about us, and hostility will yield to shame.

  Paul the Apostle

  Integrity, Teaching, Thought Provoking

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• There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield.

  Lewis Howard Latimer

  Flying, Promise, Vistas

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• In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are all that matters and yet conflicts over land, specially one like on the India-China border, that yields nothing, continue. This is a burden of ancient history that we continue to carry. If tomorrow there is settlement on planet Mars, we will begin to worry if others are interested.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Land, Worry

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• Combining quantum entanglement with wormholes yields mind boggling results about black holes. But I don't trust them until we have a theory of everything which can combine quantum effects with general relativity. i.e. we need to have a full blown string theory resolve this sticky question.

  Michio Kaku

  Mind, Black, Needs

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Oil, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi (1963). “Collected Works”

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• Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Democracy, Obedience

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.25, Rajpal & Sons

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• To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Self, Use

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.230, Rajpal & Sons

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• Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Spinning, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade.
  The years thunder by.

  Sterling Hayden

  Lying, Years, Pyramids

  "Wanderer". Book by Sterling Hayden, 1963.

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• Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead. She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation, but yields her own desires gently.

  Beryl Markham

  Character, Hands, Wind

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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• You win the victory when you yield to friends.

  Sophocles

  Friendship, Winning, Victory

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.71, University of Chicago Press

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• Those that yield are not always weak

  Jacqueline Carey

  Weak

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• Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

  Shirley Jackson

  Fighting, Doctors, Patterns

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.110, Penguin

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• By geo-historical standards, today's atmospheric CO2 levels are remarkably - indeed dangerously - low.  We need CO2 in the air to support plant growth and agricultural yields, and more would be better.

  Roger Helmer

  Air, Support, Historical

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• When discipline is sown, like a good seed, it yields a harvest of things that fulfill and satisfy us-things that make us happy and release peace and joy in our lives.

  Joyce Meyer

  Discipline, Joy, Harvest

  Joyce Meyer (2008). “The Secret to True Happiness: Enjoy Today, Embrace Tomorrow”, p.126, Hachette UK

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• All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the children and find the mother, you will be free of sorrow. If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace. Seeing into darkness is clarity. Knowing how to yield is strength. Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

  Laozi

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we are about to receive make us truly thankful.' ... he... felt his heart suddenly flow over with thankfulness... like a gush of warm water... All that remains is to live here quietly for the rest of my life, eating food that my own labour has made the earth to yield. All that remains is to be a tender of the soil.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Heart, Garden, Water

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• The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride.

  Lewis Howard Latimer

  Heart, Pride, Science

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• The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fear, Recovery, Adventure

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.188, Anchor

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• You can have a strong economy or you can help the environment, but you can't do both at the same time. That's ridiculous. In fact, as a sustainable vision for a healthy economy has to involve changing our energy policy and changing with respect to the natural world. Because we're hitting nature's thresholds, we're hitting nature's limits with respect to water and crop yields and energy use and fossil fuels heating the atmosphere at the same time we're past global peak and running out of that.

  James Cameron

  Running, Strong, Past

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• Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Motivational, Drinking, Beer

  The Devil's Dictionary

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• Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.

  Melissa Gilbert

  Mother, Daughter, Son

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Do not accept principal risk while investing short-term cash: the greedy effort to earn a few extra basis points of yield inevitably leads to the incurrence of greater risk, which increases the likelihood of losses and severe illiquidity at precisely the moment when cash is needed to cover expenses, to meet commitments, or to make compelling long-term investments.

  Seth Klarman

  Commitment, Loss, Long

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• Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.

  B. C. Forbes

  Effort, Done, Littles

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