#yield

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

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The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God. ↗

— William Ames

#communicated #concerns #first #god #other

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

#faith #heaven #here #hereafter #much

During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result. ↗

— Walther Bothe

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Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#becomes #bend #better #career #congress

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation. ↗

— Frances Burney

#easily #mind #naturally #pleasure #prone

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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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

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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

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