Quotes with yields

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  • Stendhal A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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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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  • Antiphanes Everything yields to diligence.
    Antiphanes
    Ancient Greek poet (408 - 334)
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  • Adam Savage In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Euripides It is change; all yields its place and goes.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • W. M. Thackeray Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Bob Barr Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Leonardo da Vinci Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
    Leonardo da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Jacques Barzun Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
    Jacques Barzun
    French-American historian (1907 - 2012)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • B. C. Forbes The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Barney Frank This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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