Quotes with yield

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  • Charles Caleb Colton Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Thomas Paine When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Joseph Addison The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Robert Frost Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Bill de Blasio As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a weapon as those of white New Yorkers - and a third less likely to yield contraband. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of those stopped are young black and Latino men.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Virgil Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Oscar Wilde Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carlos Slim First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bought some bonds. It was a bond. When I bought this bond, it was duplicated in 10 years. I think it was 10 percent.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Robert Frost Great events yield all but imperceptible effects.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Charles Kuralt Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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  • Barbara Hepworth Half-way through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again.... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid...
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Barbara Hepworth Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Anne Hutchinson If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Burt Rutan In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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