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yield people democracy
To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. ... It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could. Walter Cronkite
yield subsidies prudent
We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers. Willard Van Orman Quine
yield people generosity
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth) Wendell Berry
yield age teeth
Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack. Ovid
yield understanding conquer
Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.
yield statistics imperfect
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation. Poul Anderson
yield satisfaction bargaining
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. B. C. Forbes
yield details tiny
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
yield taxation taxes
If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
weakness moments succubus
We all have moments of weakness. It’s how we recover from them that really counts. Richelle Mead
weakness looking-good instance
We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking. Rick Riordan
weakness
A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses. Woody Hayes
weakness obsession dangerous
Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest. Woody Allen
weakness fierce bones
Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness. Robinson Jeffers
weak
To be prejudiced is always to be weak Samuel Johnson
weakness use aspiration
Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength. Laurence Olivier
weakness power-of-love force
We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression. B. F. Skinner
weakness helping helpless
The helpless can't help the helpless. Tennessee Williams