#render

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed. ↗

— Quintus Ennius

#daring #deed #foe #friend #here

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender. ↗

— Brian Eno

#emotion #feel #go #let go #listening

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb. ↗

— Brian Eno

#i #rethink #surrender #verb #want

Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that any part of the Confederate army was near, there was great excitement over the demand for surrender. ↗

— James Longstreet

#army #before #city #confederate #demand

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#censor #citadel #contrary #convinced #hold

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#had #packing #portable #rendering #talent

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#among #being #caused #contemptible #disarmed

The popularity of Groupon has almost rendered the group-buying element of it obsolete, because we're able to deliver so many customers that the merchants are very happy with even the smallest number that we can provide. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#almost #because #customers #deliver #element

I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#control #cryptography #did #files #i

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender. ↗

— Brian Eno

#actually #atheist #chance #evangelical #gives