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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
void infinite throwing
How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void. Emile M. Cioran
void papa kind
The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid. Liv Ullmann
void states precarious
As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity. Iris Murdoch
poetry published volume wrote
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems. Tony Buzan
poetry
I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry. Chang-Rae Lee
poetry joy three
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!"). Umberto Eco
poetry spirit breaths
poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge William Wordsworth
poetry merit praise
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. Jose Marti
poet company
Oh, what company good poets are!
poetry despair born
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. Jose Bergamin
poet persons
He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse. Jorge Luis Borges
poetry lines serious
From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines. Jonathan Swift