Yield Quotes

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If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order â€” preferably a system of world government â€”… — Walter Cronkite
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure… — Edgar Allan Poe
A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good… — Walter Cronkite
The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their… — Gifford Pinchot
Well, another senator rose and said {as they always do} 'Does the gentleman yield?' They always say that - least they call each other 'gentleman'… — Will Rogers
Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies… — Stuart L. Hart
Of two men looking at a green field, one estimates its yield in bushels and calculates the price of the bushels in silver and in… — Mikhail Naimy
Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command,… — Frances Power Cobbe
If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by… — Charles Caleb Colton
Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven. — Euripides
I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. You… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. — Barney Frank
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. — Mahatma Gandhi
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty. — Bill Gates
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the… — Khalil Gibran
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… — Daniel Goleman
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
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield… — Lawrence Durrell
Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry,… — Sylvia Earle

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