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Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.
Alexandra Paul
Enough
Way
Would
Eat
Potatoes
Only
Pounds
Inefficient
Cows
Yield
Get
Same
Land
Acre
Meat
Graze
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
Ambrose Bierce
Battle
Political
Teeth
Would
Knot
Method
Yield
Tongue
Great design alone isn't going to yield the results investors are expecting.
Angela Ahrendts
Alone
Great
Design
Results
Investors
Yield
Expecting
Going
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
Me
You
Rule
Shall
Look
Yield
Convince
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Anthony Hope
You
Somebody
Must
Temptation
Absurd
Well
Becomes
Yield
Thing
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
Work
You
Will
Once
Finally
Would
Tempted
Something
Hybrid
Only
Through
Halfway
Go
Off
Yield
Yielded
Any
Often
Again
Produce
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
Barbara Hepworth
Master
Must
Details
Entirely
Structure
Perhaps
Execution
Material
Surface
Yield
Handling
Tiny
Grain
Sensitive
Whole
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
Life
Time
Freedom
Those
Mutations
Only
Shall
Longer
Goods
Subject
Yield
Personal
Any
Them
Ask
Who
We must renew our efforts to keep our communities safe, from the dangers of terrorists from foreign lands and from common criminals here at home. Let no criminal believe that tough fiscal times will yield an open cell door and a ticket to freedom.
Bill Owens
Home
Freedom
Will
Tough
Believe
Criminal
Our
Criminals
Dangers
Must
Open
Ticket
Safe
Renew
Foreign
Terrorists
Fiscal
Yield
Times
Efforts
Cell
Common
Door
Lands
Communities
Keep
Here
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
First
Nothing
Think
Some
Percent
Bought
Check
Opened
Looked
Years
Account
Yield
Duplicated
Bond
Bonds
All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.
Clara Zetkin
Life
Women
Equality
Political
Whatever
Rich
Society
All Women
Demand
Calculated
Freer
Blessings
Yield
Should
Means
Position
I am always looking for options that yield something unexpected.
Damian Woetzel
Looking
Something
Always
Am
Yield
Options
Unexpected
When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.
Daniel Goleman
Mind
First
Framework
Data
Neuroscience
First-Person
Integrating
Yield
Person
Experiences
Exploring
Show
Measurements
Cognitive
Third
Longer distances yield local media coverage that tends to be more one-dimensional and absolute, less nuanced, and more sporadic.
Daniel Lubetzky
Local
Distances
One-Dimensional
More
Absolute
Tends
Longer
Coverage
Yield
Less
Media
Media Coverage
Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.
Diane Ackerman
Weather
Fall
Field
Jazz
Add
Someone
Sharpening
Hound
Call
Sound
Scissors
Yield
Stomach
Again
Warm
Cool
Thermometer
Muscles
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Douglas MacArthur
War
History
Peace
Honor
Every
Has-Been
Would
Could
Advance
Line
Been
Accorded
Yield
Contribution
Which
Century
Hence
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
Earl Warren
Education
Law
Public Education
State
Local
Must
Federal
Provisions
Yield
Discrimination
Public
Requiring
Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.
Ellen G. White
Will
Parents
Own
Control
Nothing
Bend
Else
Spirits
Shall
Perfect
Firmness
Over
Wishes
Until
Yield
Expect
Child
Should
I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?
Errol Morris
You
Will
Think
Otherwise
Interview
Considered
Properly
Investigation
Know
Yield
Should
Why
Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
Gary Becker
Alone
Behavior
Analysis
Assumptions
Systematic
Intuitive
About
Only
Point
Implications
Still
Yield
Interesting
Many
Starting
Starting Point
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
Henry James
Nature
Will
Face
Country
Master
Field
Imagination
Elsewhere
Our
Secrets
Worthily
More
Only
Civilization
Point
Write
Well
Very
Yield
Than
American
Literary
Really
Certain
Certain Point
Grasping
Even
Sufficient
Things
Need
You can pick wild strawberries with your eyes closed, locating them by smell, for they are two parts perfume to one part taste. An hour of searching might yield a handful if you're lucky. Wild strawberries can't be encouraged, nor can they be discouraged: They come to you unbidden and unearned. They appear, or do not, by the grace of the sun.
Hope Jahren
You
Eyes
Grace
Smell
Discouraged
Closed
Wild
Sun
Pick
Part
Come
Hour
Perfume
Parts
Nor
Encouraged
Handful
Unearned
Yield
Taste
Them
Might
Your
Appear
Lucky
Searching
Strawberries
Two
We are free to yield to truth.
Horace
Truth
Free
Yield
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.
Immanuel Kant
Knowledge
Our
Way
Neither
Corresponding
Intuition
Constitute
Some
Concepts
Without
Nor
Yield
Them
Elements
Unilever, Nestle and SAB Miller are all taking a long-term approach to investing in sustainable resource consumption. Each is driving through better resource management, which is expected to yield positive returns in the future.
Jacob Rothschild
Positive
Future
Management
Better
Approach
Resource
Through
Driving
Investing
Consumption
Taking
Long-Term
Returns
Yield
Expected
Sustainable
Which
Each
Miller
In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and interest, in real time.
James Fenton
Time
Song
Dramatic
Rule
Must
Attention
Arouse
Real
Verse
Itself
Yield
Same
Real Time
Interest
Meaning
Sufficiently
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