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• Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.

  Adyashanti

  Creativity, Expression, Awareness

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• The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and their patience for activities that take time and problems that don't yield immediate solutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Attention, Pace

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2006). “It Takes a Village”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced a bear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Germany strove for maximum yields of both timber and game and got neither.

  Aldo Leopold

  Cat, Eagles, Games

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• The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

  Jenny Holzer

  Lovely, Awful, Attention

  "Jenny Holzer: drawn to the dark side". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2012.

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• Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.

  Napoleon Hill

  Nature, Profound, Secret

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• When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Environmental, Quality, Earth

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• We invest in undervalued companies that exhibit strong fundamentals, above-market dividend yields and historic earnings growth, which our analysis indicates will persist. Our strategy is to own strong, fundamentally sound companies and to avoid speculative stocks or potential bankruptcies.

  David Dreman

  Strong, Growth, Sound

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• Socialist countries throughout the world love to lower retirement ages to make people prematurely dependent on the government. But we should move in the opposite direction. In the long run, indexing retirement to life expectancy will yield enormous revenues to the system, far more than a one-shot increase in the age in the current legislative cycle.

  Dick Morris

  Country, Running, Retirement

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• The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.

  Barry Humphries

  Song, Art, Past

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• One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and highly competitive. My heart drops into my bowels when I enter a bookshop and see how fierce the competition is...There is also a privier reason for pushing on, and that is the hopeless hope that someday that intractable enemy language will yield to the struggle to control it... Mastery never comes, and one serves a lifelong apprenticeship. The writer cannot retire from the battle; he dies fighting.

  Anthony Burgess

  Struggle, Writing, Heart

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• The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.

  Carlos Castaneda

  World, Steps, Description

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• I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.

  James Boswell

  Writing, Joy, Risk

  James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”

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• I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result

  Aitzaz Ahsan

  Thinking, Ongoing, Negotiation

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• But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race, oppressing all men by their usury and rapine. If they give a prince or magistrate a thousand florins, they extort twenty thousand from the subjects in payment. We must ever keep on guard against them.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Race, Giving

  Martin Luther (1848). “The Table Talk Or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther”, p.352

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• A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

  Stendhal

  Happiness, Wise, Seduction

  "De L'Amour (On Love)". Book by Stendhal (Chapter 60), 1822.

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• Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

  Samuel Johnson

  Truth, People, Atheism

  1763 Of sceptics. Remark, 21 Jul. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

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• The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women. White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.

  Ida B. Wells

  Girl, Men, Race

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• The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

  Abraham Maslow

  Philosophy, Psychology, Immature

  Carl Ransom Rogers, Abraham Harold Maslow (1984). “American politics and humanistic psychology”, Saybrook Pub

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• Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

  Jacques Barzun

  Mind, Tragedy, Great Minds

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• In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Civilization, Southern

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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• ... [L]ess than at any time does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality. A photograph of the Krupp works or GEC yields almost nothing about those institutions. Reality proper has slipped into the functional. The reification of human relationships, the factory, let's say, no longer reveals these relationships. Therefore something has to be constructed, something artificial, something set up.

  Walter Benjamin

  Simple, Reality, Doe

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• The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Feel Better, Artist, Suits

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• Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to night!

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Mourning, Heaven

  'Henry VI, Part 1' (1592) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government.

  John F. Kennedy

  Government, Years, Income

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• Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.

  Wafa Sultan

  People, Church, Burning Down

  "For muslim who says violence destroys islam, violent threats". www.nytimes.com. March 13, 2016.

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