Yields Quotes
198 quotes by 168 authors
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Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.…
— Walter Benjamin
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Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.
— John Phillips
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Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the paint; it has…
— Gerhard Richter
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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.
— Bob Barr
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As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields…
— Nina Fedoroff
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No effort is ever wasted, although some pay dividends later than you think. Do not imagine that you "wasted your time" because something didn't turn…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t mix…
— Charlie Munger
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The only power that God yields to is that of prayer.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market,
— Bill Gross
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Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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We might do well to stay home a few days and walk over the fields, or to stand in the shelter of the barn door…
— Wheeler McMillen
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At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the…
— Leo Tolstoy
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It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills,…
— Eric Hoffer
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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,…
— Euripides
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.
— Joseph Campbell
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The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
— Odilon Redon
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Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.
— Jules Michelet
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Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we…
— Nelson Goodman
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The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no…
— Zeno of Elea
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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
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