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• I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone

  Feist

  Giving, Crowns, Care

  Song: Monarch

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• Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Discipline, Consistency, Balance

  "On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1841.

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• Politeness costs little and yields much.

  Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

  Cost, Littles, Politeness

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• Yield all and trust all.

  Marie Angelique Arnauld

  Spirituality

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• I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Friendship, Communication, Pleasure

  George Edward Woodberry (1933). “Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry”

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• I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

  George Chapman

  Song, Courage, Voice

  Eastward Ho act 5, sc. 1 (1605).

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• The apparent goal of the journey is simply the carrot the universe dangles before you to get you to learn the lessons the adventure yields.

  Alan Cohen

  Adventure, Journey, Goal

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• Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Military, War

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this nation.

  Cornel West

  Wall, Loneliness, Lying

  Cornel West (1998). “Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America”, G K Hall & Company

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• Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the reasonable period be shorter than the trial is likely to last. It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fun, Men, Sight

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

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• Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  "Writing Lessons From the Madly Prolific Joyce Carol Oates". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. September 10, 2016.

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• Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

  Aldo Leopold

  Doe, Pay, Action

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.346, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. Because of the impression that the future is blocked up, that *they* might do all right but not their children. Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible only somewhere else.

  Yann Martel

  Children, Moving, Years

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.119, Canongate Books

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• Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Memories, Pride, Done

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• ...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those moments we are giving up our citizenship.

  Naomi Wolf

  Giving Up, Rights, Hands

  Naomi Wolf (2008). “Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.

  Leonard Cohen

  Music, Rivers, Soul

  Song: Take This Waltz, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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• The reason fiber helps us control our weight is that it fills the belly yet yields few calories since fiber is, for the most part, not something that we can digest.

  Kathy Freston

  Weight, Fiber, Helping

  "An Apple a Day Melts the Pounds Away!" by Kathy Freston, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2012.

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• He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows; and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed that any walk — that anything — could give him so much happiness.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Children, Home

  "A Christmas carol in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas: With original art and narration by Jon Langford".

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• A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Good Day, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.278, BookCaps Study Guides

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• How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set free, Up from the eastern sea Soars the delightful day. To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall squander life no more; Days lost, I know not how, I shall retrieve them now; Now I shall keep the vow I never kept before. Ensanguining the skies How heavily it dies Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground Falls the remorseful day.

  A. E. Housman

  Beautiful, Strong, Morning

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Essentials, Would Be, Answers

  Interview With Joseph Pearce, www.catholiceducation.org. February, 2003.

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• The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

  Martin Luther

  Devil, Way, Scripture

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• Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

  Charles Dickens

  Crush, Humanity, Twists

  Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.339, GENERAL PRESS

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• A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be "gay," I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.

  Michel Foucault

  Gay, Thinking, Age

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• It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Struggle, Goal, Effort

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