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• The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Limits, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Flower

  Silas Weir Mitchell (1896). “The Collected Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”

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• Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.

  William Shockley

  Motivation, Knowledge, Science

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• There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.

  George Fownes

  Knowledge, Science, Civilization

  George Fownes (1845). “Elementary Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical”, p.224

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• Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Relationship, Falling In Love, Jobs

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

  Howard Thurman

  Mean, Commitment, Important

  Howard Thurman (1963). “Disciplines of the spirit”, Friends United Pr

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• Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Laurels, Total War

  'De Officiis' bk. 1, ch. 77

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• Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Crush, Integrity, Patriotic

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• The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else. This fragmented approach yields effective mathematics education not for the many but for the few primarily those who are independently motivated and who will learn under any conditions.

  Lynn Steen

  Teaching, School, Math

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• There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess

  Mortimer Collins

  Men, Class, Play

  Mortimer Collins, Frank Kerslake (1880). “Attic Salt, Or, Epigrammatic Sayings, Healthful, Humorous and Wise: In Prose and Verse, Collected from the Works of Mortimer Collins”

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• All is change; all yields its place and goes.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Change

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.20, University of Chicago Press

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• In order for the inner man to be strengthened with power through the Holy Spirit, the children of God must discharge their responsibility. They need to yield specifically to the Lord, forsake every doubtful aspect in their life, be willing to obey fully God's will, and believe through prayer that He will flood their spirit with His power.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Children, Believe

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.50, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Last night I had rinsed out my sari strip and briefs in the sea. I walked down naked to where they hung in the branches of the silvery leafed tree beside the creek. Underneath the lazy sensuality of a luxurious stretch from toes to nose I felt the strong unequivocal demand of my blood. I hugged myself for a moment watching the grey light yield to dawn through half-closed eyes.

  Lucy Irvine

  Strong, Eye, Night

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• On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Goal, Training, Sorrow

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.480, Cambridge University Press

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• Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning.

  Helen Keller

  Uplifting, Morning, Heart

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.141, Book Tree

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• We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity.

  Meg Whitman

  Opportunity, Names, People

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• Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.

  Bobby Sands

  War, Gun, Winning

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• Drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than on research, more on research on lifestyle drugs than on life saving drugs, and almost nothing on diseases that affect developing countries only. This is not surprising. Poor people cannot afford drugs, and drug companies make investments that yield the highest returns.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, People, Drug

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• So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to escape from the present conflict to enter a condition in which there shall be no conflict; or whether you are unaware, unconscious of this conflict in which you exist. If you are unconscious of the conflict, that is, the battle that is taking place between that self and the environment, if you are unconscious of that battle, then why do you seek further remedies? Remain unconscious.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti 1934-1935: What Is Right Action”, Editorial Kier

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• I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

  John Donne

  Honesty, Integrity, Self

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• To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic.

  Hugo Rahner

  Play, Magic, Kind

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• The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.

  Maurice Strong

  Powerful, Community, Environmental

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• Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and deciding the best course of action in the face of that future are much less likely to do so. And much of what we've seen so far suggests that a large group of diverse individuals will come up with better and more robust forecasts and make more intelligent decisions than even the most skilled "decision maker."

  James Surowiecki

  Hard Work, Intelligent, Skills

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• The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Perseverance, Opportunity, Iron

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.161

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• I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Believe, Men

  "Why Liberty?". Chicago Tribune, January 30, 1927.

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