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• Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle… — Laozi
• Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the… — John Burroughs
• The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
• It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield… — Thomas Jefferson
• The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear. — Edmund Burke
• While there have been great technological advances in the study of the brain, yielding enormous amounts of data on its physical and… — Michael Gazzaniga
• The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he… — H. L. Mencken
• The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is,… — J. P. McEvoy
• I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the… — George Bernard Shaw
• Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means… — Joseph Campbell
• A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap.… — Laozi

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