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“'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!”

Destiny Fate Paradise Gates Yield Woe Dupes

Author:Hafez

“Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.”

Doe Illusion Hopeful Cherish Yield Cynicism

“Any time we open ourselves up to fear, we fall prey to his deceptions and intimidations. Yet, if we submit our hearts to God and stand in faith, we can resist those first fearful thoughts. As we yield to God we can master our reactions to fear and the enemy will soon flee.”

Ifs Firsts Heart Fall Enemy Masters Reactions Deception Yield Fearful Submit Prey Intimidation

Author:Francis Frangipane

“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.”

Reason Helping Weight Yield Belly Calories Fiber

Author:Kathy Freston

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

Ifs Thinking Writing Reading Wish Dull Yield Uninspiring

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this?”

Reading Mystery Inspired Contrary Prose Yield

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well.”

Wells Doe Yield Competence Breadth Reliability

Author:Ernest Sosa

“My other work, teaching, also is satisfying because I can be with people but in controlled circumstances, which aren't as likely to yield the pain of dealing with family.”

People I Can Pain Teaching Circumstances Yield Controlled Satisfying Because I Can

Author:Phillip Lopate

“Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.”

Way Elements Concepts Instinct Intuition Yield Corresponding

Book:Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason

Source: Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason

“If you look at the sponsorship yields, Formula One - because it happens every year - generates more sponsorship money for a four-year cycle than anybody else. So it is very powerful.”

Ifs Years Looks Happens Powerful Four Cycles Yield Formulas Four Years Very Powerful Formula One Sponsorship

Author:Martin Sorrell

“Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries. A foreign investor picks up a yield spread in Treasurys versus their own sovereigns, plus the fact that if the dollar is going to continue rallying - and I think it will because it's a safe haven - then they get a currency translation gain as well.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Country Facts Havens Higher Safe Lows Picks Gains Dollars Spread Plus Yield Investors Currency Versus Translations Safe Haven Developed Country Rallying

Author:Gary Shilling

“In order to better charge Moscow with human rights violations, the United States had to bend with regard to the more excessive aspects of Jim Crow. It had to yield to the insistent cries on the ground here in this country.”

Humans Country States Order United United States Rights Cry Aspect Regard Human Rights Yield Violation Crow Moscow Jim Crow

Author:Gerald Horne

“You would expect to see that first in high-yield [debt], but it was in the most liquid thing in the world. So that, I think - it's a little bit of a warning that we've got to be prepared and just be careful.”

Thinking World Firsts Littles Bits Little Bit Prepared Careful Debt Yield Warning Be Careful Be Prepared Liquid

Author:Jamie Dimon

“When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1/20th of one percent, that means the whole country is basically at the point virtually, or a lot of the country is at the point of putting the money under the mattress.”

Mean Country Whole Percent Bills Seven Billions Yield Treasury Seven Days Mattresses Treasury Bill

Author:Warren Buffett

“You have hedge funds and people like that buying these assets to yield 15 or 20 percent, I mean, that's the buyer for these people that are trying to unload them.”

People Trying Mean Percent Buying Fund Yield Assets Buyers Hedge Fund

Author:Warren Buffett

“Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries.”

Country Higher Lows Yield Developed Country

Author:Gary Shilling

“How do you measure whether or not a strategy of economic growth that is articulated by a very smart, capable economist actually yields growth? You can't. But you can influence.”

Growth Influence Economic Capable Smart Strategy Yield Economist Economic Growth Very Smart

Author:George W. Bush

“It's a mistake to suppose that capacities must evolve gradually. There are many known examples of sharp changes - slight genetic modification that yields substantial phenotypic effects, and much else.”

Mistake Known Effects Example Capacity Evolve Yield Modification

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Homosexual feelings are controllable. Perhaps there is an inclination or susceptibility to such feelings that is a reality for some and not a reality for others. But out of such susceptibilities come feelings, and feelings are controllable. If we cater to the feelings, they increase the power of the temptation. If we yield to the temptation, we have committed sinful behavior. That pattern is the same for a person that covets someone else's property and has a strong temptation to steal. It's the same for a person that develops a taste for alcohol.”

Ifs Persons Feelings Reality Strong Taste Behavior Increase Property Patterns Committed Alcohol Stealing Temptation Yield Homosexual Inclination Susceptibility

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”

Life Inspirational Humor Beautiful Opinion Great Things Accomplished Yield Conformity Trends Bad Ass Nonconformity Fads Popular Opinion Fashion Trends Mission Accomplished

Author:Jack Kerouac

“At a glance, addiction, sex work, mad passion, and all forms of extreme behavior might look like pushing or trying to obliterate boundaries when, more honestly, they are a search for them. I want to find the endpoint, the place where my own powers end, so I can yield to something that I'm certain is bigger than me.”

Want Trying Looks I Can Ends Might Form Certain Passion Sex My Own Behavior Bigger Mad Addiction Extremes Honestly Boundaries Pushing Yield Glances Sex Work

Author:Melissa Febos

“Obviously, our business leaders yield enormous influence on our political leaders, and they have a duty to use that influence for the greater good. But beyond that, the private sector depends on having healthy, educated and productive workers.”

Use Political Leader Greater Influence Duty Depends Healthy Workers Enormous Educated Productive Yield Private Sector Business Leaders Political Leaders Greater Good

Author:Shakira

“No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.”

Kind Information Painting Amount Stones Bones Yield Bows And Arrows

Author:Mary Leakey

“America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.”

America Likes Usa Yield Exceptional

Author:Eric Liu

“Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.”

Men Moments Political Desire Suffering Politics Simple Tricks Yield

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.”

“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.”

Doe Born Blood Duty Blessed Sacred Innocent Innocence Yield

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.”

Powerful Consciousness Demand Manipulation Yield Aggression Avenues Very Powerful Madison Madison Avenue

Book:Letters of Marshall McLuhan

Source: Letters of Marshall McLuhan

“It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.”

Ifs Looks Grows Depends Plant Various Factors Concentration Yield Temperature Acres Co2 Humidity

Author:Ralph Merkle

“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.”

Ifs Should Persons Loss Half Economy Cutting Fortune Average Yield Hitting Venture Speculators His Loss

Author:Bernard Baruch

“You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got...”

Knows Two Hate Energy Talent Cry Live Life Two Things Yield Wasting Time Milk Live Your Life No Point Spilt Milk

Author:David Miliband

“It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.”

Thinking Way Use Today Energy Can Do Generations Plant Yield Efficient Tricky Power Plants Biofuels

Author:Elon Musk

“We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.”

People Way Government Benefits Spending Guarantees Yield Federal Government Taxpayers

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973

“Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.”

Stills Interesting Behavior Starting Analysis Assumption Yield Intuitive Implications Systematic Starting Point

Author:Gary Becker

“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.”

Men Life Important Whole Happiness Goal Pleasure Amount Yield Happy Life Important Questions Pleasures Of Life Pleasure And Happiness

Book:A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments

Source: A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments

“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”

Thinking Men Pain Lasts Freedom Liberty Shadow Privilege Quitting Patriotic Yield Horizon New Horizons

Book:The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine

Source: The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine

“Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.”

Men World Doe Matter Change Technology Study Subjects Essentials Behavior Physics Manipulation Yield Manipulate Subject Matter Nature Of Man

Author:Pope Paul VI

“Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.”

Littles Together Taken Violence Overcoming Perseverance Persistence Accomplishment Yield Prevailing Perserverance Greek Philosopher Inspirational Perseverance Determination And Persistence Perseverence Dedication And Perseverance Perseverance Motivational

Book:Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

“Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.”

“From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.”

Night Dark Poet Solitude Dialogue Landscape Poetic Yield Diaries

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

“When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.”

Hard Work Defeat Inevitable Yield Wisest

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)

“In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.”

Years States Hands United Views United States Progress Return Cruelty Oppression Yield Regimes Invited Misguided Castro Naivete Placating

Author:Mitt Romney

“The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.”

Source: Love is a Stranger

“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.”

Asks Subjects Materialism Goods Yield Mutation Genetic Mutation

Book:Contemplation and Action, 1902-14

Source: Contemplation and Action, 1902-14

“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.”

Spirit Tests Experiments Data Yield Fierce

Author:Adam Savage

“Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.”

“Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.”

Political Politics Battle Method Tongue Teeth Yield Knots

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.”

Humans May Long Strong Term Decision Complexes Addiction Planning Rational Tendencies Temptation Long Term Decision Making Yield Short Term

Author:Peter Singer

“Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.”

Humans Wells Long Important Soul Spiritual Human Beings Situation Well Being Yield

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

Reality Running Attitude Military Strive Yield Heroic Gathering Great Poetry Bond Movie Greatest Poetry James Bond Movie Beautiful Poetry Skyfall

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

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