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• My first act as president is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads: Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and thank You for Your love. Accept our thanks for the peace that yields this day and the shared faith that makes its continuance likely. Make us strong to do Your work, willing to head and hear Your will, and write on our hearts these words: 'Use power to help people." For we know that we are given power, not to advance our own purposes, nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people. Help us to remember it Lord, Amen.

  George H. W. Bush

  Strong, Prayer, Father

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive under these circumstances, and unless you use this feedback to your positive advantage, unless you adjust to it, adapt to it and accept the sometimes terrifying weaknesses it can expose, you can never realize the most out of your film.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Powerful, Reality, Design

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• Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome.  Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy.

  Phillip Moffitt

  Kindness, Compassion, Greed

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• The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an inch it is better to retreat a yard." This is called going forward without advancing, pushing back without using weapons. There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy. Underestimating your enemy means thinking that he is evil. Thus you destroy your three treasures and become an enemy yourself. When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.

  Laozi

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• And we support Senator Joseph Lieberman, that it's time for our country to consider a military preemptive strike against Iran if they will not yield to diplomacy

  John Hagee

  Country, Military, Iran

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2007.

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• He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.

  Albert Pike

  Strong, Stress, Struggle

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement, making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth.

  George Washington

  Hope, Peace, Retirement

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1796). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”

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• When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of a particular room -- on successive occasions, we quickly begin to adapt to it, and the experience yields less pleasure each time. Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage

  Daniel Gilbert

  Making Love, Hearing, Rooms

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, Vintage

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• Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jobs, Work, Loss

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• Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Higher

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• There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.

  Henry Ford

  Vegetables, Years, Alcohol

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• No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience yields no blessings.

  Richard G. Scott

  Exercise, Blessing, Agency

  "To Help a Loved One in Need" by Richard G. Scott, www.lds.org. May 1988.

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• How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.74

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• Spirituality yields two fruits. The first in inspiration to know what to do. The second is power, or the capacity to do it. These two capacities come together. That's why Nephi could say, 'I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded' (1 Nephi 3:7). He knew the spiritual laws upon which inspiration and power are based. Yes, God answers prayer and gives us spiritual direction when we live obediently and exercise the required faith in Him.

  Richard G. Scott

  Spiritual, Prayer, Inspiration

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• It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word.

  Saint Augustine

  Pain, Teaching, Men

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.10789, Aeterna Press

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• I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

  Socrates

  Apology, Men, Fear Of Death

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• The joy of late love is like green firewood when set aflame, for the longer the wait in lighting, the greater heat it yields and the longer its force lasts.

  Chretien de Troyes

  Love You, Love Is, Joy

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• There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

  Francis Drake

  Recovery, New Beginnings, Addiction

  Dispatch to Sir Francis Walsingham, 17 May 1587, in 'Navy Records Society' vol. 11 (1898) p.134

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• The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.

  Robert Cialdini

  Finals, Opponents, Enough

  Robert B. Cialdini (1985). “Influence: Science and Practice”, Scott Foresman

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• The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Entrepreneur, Creative Destruction, Economic

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• Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Brotherhood, Helping

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Sartor Reartus: The Life and Opinions of Her Teufelsdrockh : in Three Books”, p.301

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• A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

  Charles Spurgeon

  Air, Oxygen, Wind

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.166, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

  Poul Anderson

  Statistics, Imperfect, Certain

  Poul Anderson (2003). “Going For Infinity: A Literary Journey”, p.525, Macmillan

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• Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Business, Psychology, Investing

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• By learning to yield to the loving authority of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life — his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers.

  James Dobson

  Teacher, Children, School

  James C. Dobson (1991). “How to Raise Children That Love the Lord”, Chariot Family Pub

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