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• Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
• Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce
• There's always gonna be guys who are just wonderful singers and probably shouldn't be writing songs. Then there's always gonna be guys… — Luke Bryan
• One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to… — David O. McKay
• The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. — Winston Churchill
• I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or… — Lafcadio Hearn
• Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort. — Leonardo da Vinci
• All is change; all yields its place and goes. — Euripides
• I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that… — H. L. Mencken
• He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully. — Christian Nestell Bovee
• Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace… — Elie Wiesel
• You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the… — Unknown Author

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