"The Universe yields to me when I ask."
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"All is change; all yields its place and goes."
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"When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will."
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"The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning."
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"Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield."
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"The more tremendous the divinity is represented, the more tame and submissive do men become his ministers: And the more unaccountable the measures of acceptance required by him, the more necessary does it become to abandon our natural reason, and yield to their ghostly guidance and direction."
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"We can begin to let go of the complications that cause us to suffer by cultivating a simple state of awareness. In this process, tiny steps yield big results, in part because simplicity is nature's default position. Suffering and the complications that fuel it are unnatural; it wastes energy to maintain complexity."
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"Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime."
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"Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share."
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"Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind."
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"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."
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"That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him."
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"Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection."
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"The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."
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"One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield."
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"The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction."
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"Infinite is the help man can yield to man."
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"Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change."
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"When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation."
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"Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity."
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