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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thomas Paine
Liberty
Men
Thinking
Horizon
Shadow
Up
Yield
Privilege
Quits
Last
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein
Funny
Way
Temptation
Pass
Yield
May
Again
Your
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Thomas Jefferson
People
Too Much
Nothing
Congress
Too
Otherwise
Everything
Hundred
Lawyers
Hour
Talk
Talking
Trade
How
Question
Yield
Send
Which
Much
Fifty
Body
Whose
Present
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller
Wise
Enemy
World
Our
Worst
Never
Self-Pity
Yield
Anything
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac
Great
Great Things
Trends
Those
Fads
Opinion
Accomplished
Yield
Who
Popular
Popular Opinion
Things
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Everything
Way
I Can
Temptation
Only
Yield
Get
Rid
Resist
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Strive
Find
Seek
Yield
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Thomas Jefferson
Government
Natural
Progress
Liberty
Yield
Gain
Ground
Things
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.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Simple
Will
Men
Trick
Tricked
Find
He
Another
Readily
Always
Yield
Moment
Who
Suffer
Desires
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
Sitting Bull
Animal
Power
Too
Our
Neighbors
Ourselves
Vast
Mysterious
Through
Yield
Same
Being
Land
Inhabit
Therefore
Even
Right
Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.
Ellen G. White
Will
Seen
Met
Discouraged
Disposition
Aid
Others
Favor
Through
Disappointed
Leaning
Always
Been
Waited
Yield
Expect
Expectations
Expecting
Same
Children
Them
Whole
Helpless
Lives
Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to it, in our view, at different times. And truth will prevail, and those who do not yield to it must be destroyed by it.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Truth
Prevail
Truth Is
Will
Our
Those
Circumstances
Though
Destroyed
Must
Give
Unchanging
Colour
Operate
Yield
Times
May
Different
Eternal
View
Who
Different Times
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde
Strength
You
Courage
Think
Tell
Weakness
Temptation
Temptations
Terrible
Yield
Yields
Which
Really
Requires
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
Louis D. Brandeis
Words
Logic
Yield
Realities
Should
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Confucius
Truth
Art
Anger
Speak
Three
Thou
Thou Art
Wilt
Give
Steps
Go
Yield
Gods
Little
Asked
Near
People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.
Clayton M. Christensen
You
Happy
People
Try
Out
Find
Follow
Results
Like
Idol
Idols
Very
Yield
Did
Models
Want
Successful
Copy
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
Cornel West
Clever
Addicted
Distraction
Cheap
Mass
Yield
Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.
John McCain
Surrender
Fight
Will
Never Surrender
President
Our
Never
Up
Yield
American
Stand
Stand Up
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mahatma Gandhi
Love
Nature
You
Man
Evil
Human Nature
Despair
Has-Been
Must
Brute
Never
Known
Been
Yield
Human
Essentially
Influence
Love You
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
Pindar
Wisdom
Self-Interest
Yield
Even
It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.
Alex Lowe
Peace
Wonderful
World
Mountains
Control
Live
Humility
Back
Our
Remind
Demand
Over
Return
Vulnerability
Ultimate
Yield
Lack
Us
Much
Among
We have control over the work of our hands, but little over the working of the soul. But yet we must yield to it, for without it we have nothing.
George William Russell
Work
Soul
Control
Nothing
Our
Must
Over
Without
Yield
Hands
Little
Working
We respect the will of our citizens, whether they are Kurds or Arabs or Turkmen, but will not allow an illegal and unconstitutional procedure done under the threat of weapons to yield results.
Haider al-Abadi
Respect
Will
Our
Arabs
Citizens
Weapons
Threat
Results
Allow
Unconstitutional
Kurds
Yield
Done
Procedure
Whether
Illegal
Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.
Timothy D. Snyder
Democracy
Experience
Communism
Our
Saw
Advantage
Wiser
Learn
Yield
Than
American
Might
Who
Europeans
Fascism
You cannot increase the efficiency of photosynthesis. We improve the performance of farms by irrigating them and fertilizing them to provide all these nutrients. But we cannot keep on doubling the yield every two years. Moore's law doesn't apply to plants.
Vaclav Smil
You
Law
Plants
Every
Increase
Nutrients
We Cannot
Moore
Performance
Provide
Years
Yield
Efficiency
Improve
Cannot
Them
Doubling
Farms
Keep
Apply
Two
Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Relation
Location
Station
Parameters
Area
Instruments
Geology
Test
Yield
Site
Depends
Measuring
Multiple
Nuclear
Number
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